On October 16th, a school bus ended up in a ditch in Dohat el-Hoss, in the Aramoun region, resulting in several minor injuries among the students. (Credit: NNA)
On the school bus taking him home last Nov. 12, Jad Salem, age 6, a student at Hajj Bahaa al-Din Hariri High School (HBHS) in Saida, stuck his head out the window. Struck by a tree, he died shortly afterward. On the same day, thirteen students were injured in Shhour (Sour) after their private van veered off the road. A month earlier, a school bus ended up in a ditch in Dohat al-Hoss (Mount Lebanon), causing several minor injuries. On May 28, in a collision in Bint Jbeil, a teacher lost her life."More than a hundred students lose their lives every year on the way to school, whether they walk, take a school bus, use private transportation, or go with their parents," warns Joe Daccache, president of the Lebanese Association for Safety Awareness in Schools (Lassa), a branch of the YASA road safety association, citing estimates in...
On the school bus taking him home last Nov. 12, Jad Salem, age 6, a student at Hajj Bahaa al-Din Hariri High School (HBHS) in Saida, stuck his head out the window. Struck by a tree, he died shortly afterward. On the same day, thirteen students were injured in Shhour (Sour) after their private van veered off the road. A month earlier, a school bus ended up in a ditch in Dohat al-Hoss (Mount Lebanon), causing several minor injuries. On May 28, in a collision in Bint Jbeil, a teacher lost her life."More than a hundred students lose their lives every year on the way to school, whether they walk, take a school bus, use private transportation, or go with their parents," warns Joe Daccache, president of the Lebanese Association for Safety Awareness in Schools (Lassa), a branch of the YASA road safety association, citing estimates in...