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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 05:18 21/12/2007 IDF officer charged with causing death by negligence in car accident By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: car accident, IDF, Israel Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers, including one officer, were charged Thursday with causing death by negligence over their involvement in a car accident in northern Israel last June. Corporal Avihai Nahum, who was sitting in the back seat of the officer's jeep at the time of the accident, was killed in the crash. The indictment states that the officer who was driving the jeep tried to illegally overtake another vehicle on a road with bad visibility, nearly colliding with an oncoming car in the opposing lane of traffic. Advertisement The driver managed to avoid a collision but both cars spun out of control and caught on fire as a result. The officer is charged with illegally overtaking a car, while the driver of the vehicle which the officer was overtaking, also an IDF soldier, is charged with failing to allow the jeep to overtake him Bookmark to del.icio.us Blast from the past The donkey is making a comeback as the prevalent form of transportation in Gaza. U.S. anti-Semitism The ZOA condemns the U.S. government for failing to protect Jewish students.   1.   If a Muslim had been killed in the WB 01:26  |  Steve 21/12/07   2.   #1 Steve MN - Learn to read 06:05  |  * BEN JABO 21/12/07   3.   #1 Steve MN - Try reading comprehension course 06:42  |  * BEN JABO 21/12/07

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