Strange Happening — Toddler left on Bus . . .

. . . AND NO ONE NOTICED?

Maybe the mother moved the other children down from the bus and then the doors closed leaving the boy and stroller still onboard? But where were the other passengers? They usually yell out when something is amiss? 



A bus driver was surprised to discover a baby boy in a stroller still on the bus at the end of his run on Wednesday in Jerusalem. The bus driver filmed himself walking through the bus and showing the stroller that the child was in after the bus had made its final stop. He then uploaded the video to social media. “What am I supposed to do?” one can hear the driver asking during the video.

As can be expected, social media went wild with the video and people began sharing it widely across the world. The police were notified and conducted an investigation into the incident. As it turns out, the child was not forgotten nor abandoned on the bus as some who see the video may think.

According to the police report, a father had gotten on the bus with two children, one in a stroller the other in a car seat. At the final stop, the father exited the bus with the child in the car seat and went to put the seat down on the floor. He then attempted to get back on the bus to take the stroller but the driver had closed the doors and driven off. The driver apparently had not noticed the father’s attempts to reboard the bus.

The father saw the bus departing, picked up his son in the car seat and ran after the bus. When the bus stopped close to a hundred meters away, the driver got up to do a sweep of the bus and saw the stroller. Before the father arrived, panting, the bus driver had already filmed and uploaded the video. After he had done so, the father arrived to collect his older son.

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28 Children Died Over Summer Months

In a report on the events of the summer, the Beterem safety organization said that 28 children died in July and August. That figure was similar to the average number of children -27 – who died each year during the summer season over the past five years.

Of those, 15 children lost their lives in road accidents, and of those, 9 were from the Arab sector – with four from Bedouin communities. Eight of the victims were between 15 and 17 years of age. Over the past five summers, the average number of children dying in road accidents was 11.

Unlike in 2018, when the main cause of children’s deaths was drowning, incidents of that type were down in summer 2019. Five children died in drowning incidents this summer, compared to 12 in summer 2018. Three of the victims died after being hospitalized, two drowned in a home pool, one in a hotel pool, and one at the beach.

Beterem head Orly Silbinger said that “summer vacation is supposed to be a happy time for children, but unfortunately the facts show that it is a dangerous and difficult time. Vacations are too often cut short by the brutality of a road accident that could have been prevented. We call on parents not to take the attitude that “it won’t happen to us.” Act to prevent it from happening. Safe behavior is a habit that must be adopted at home, on the streets, on trips, on vacations, and everywhere in the world. Only if we adopt a culture of safety will we change the situation and save our children,” she added. Hamodia originally viewed on yeranenyaakov today.