The driver flees from the incident, later arrested by police According to the latest data from the National Road Safety Authority, 325 people have been killed in 298 traffic accidents since the beginning of the year.
An 18-year-old woman was killed in an apparent hit-and-run by a bus in the northern city of Haifa early Friday morning, police and medics said.
Paramedics who arrived on the scene found the Haifa resident unconscious and not breathing, and declared her dead at the scene.
Police said they arrested the bus driver, a 39-year-old resident of the Arab town of Shfaram.
According to a preliminary investigation, the driver fled the scene after hitting the woman while she was walking across the route of the Metronit bus rapid service.
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