当地时间6月21日下午，以色列南部一列客运列车与一辆运煤卡车相撞，三节车厢出轨，造成七人死亡，近200人受伤。这是以色列有史以来最严重的交通事故之一。 以色列官员强调指出，此次事故是意外，并非恐怖袭击。外电报道如下：A passenger train plowed¹ into a coal truck Tuesday and sent three cars tumbling off the tracks in a sunflower field in southern Israel, killing² seven people and injuring nearly 200 in one of Israel's worst train accidents.

The mangled³ cars were strewn around the field, far from main roads and cities. Dozens of passengers were thrown from the somersaulting cars.

In a country traumatized by mass casualties after four years of Palestinian suicide bombings, officials emphasized that the collision was an accident, not a terror attack.

Somersaulting在此表示“翻滚的”，somersault原指“筋斗，翻筋斗”。例如：He practiced standing⁴ on his head and turning somersaults.（他练习倒立和翻筋斗。）

据悉，出轨列车共运载了300到400名乘客，与火车相撞时正以每小时80公里的速度行驶。而那辆运煤卡车的载重达40吨，并且司机此前已持续驾驶了30个小时。