18.05.2011                      14.Ijar, 5771                      Pesach Scheni; Tag 29 des Omer

Steinlawine:

Rockslide on TA-J’lem highway was preventable, experts say

Boulders were "as big as kitchen cupboards," according to driver whose car was totaled.

For a driver whose car was destroyed on Sunday night when a rockslide suddenly showered his vehicle with huge rocks on Road 1, escaping without a scrape was nothing other than “luck.”
“Suddenly you are inside a rain of stones – you don’t see it coming and it goes on for less than a second,” said the driver, who asked to remain anonymous. “Fortunately enough, it fell one meter before the car and not on the car.”…