In a serious car accident this evening on Route 1, an ultra-Orthodox driver was fatally injured The driver apparently collided with the back of a truck, and was trapped in his vehicle The police started investigating the circumstances of the accident
An ultra-Orthodox man in his thirties was fatally injured this evening (Sunday) in a car accident on Highway 1, near the Shaar HaGai interchange.
The accident happened when a private vehicle collided with the back of a truck, near the Shaar HaGai interchange on the way to Shork. MDA medics and paramedics provided medical treatment and evacuated the driver of the car, a 30-year-old man, to the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in the capital, in critical condition after being trapped in the vehicle.
His uncle Amr, a medic at Union Rescue, said: “This is a serious accident involving a car and a truck. With the help of other medics, we provided assistance at the scene to the driver of the car who was critically injured.”
MDA paramedic Dror Eini and senior medic at MDA Bnei Yozef said: “We saw a private vehicle trapped under the back of a truck that was in the lane of travel, the driver of the vehicle, a man about 30 years old, was unconscious and suffered a severe head injury, while extricating him from the vehicle we gave him treatment Life-saving medical and we evacuated him to the hospital while continuing to treat him as he is in critical condition.”
The police said that the traffic accident examiners of the Israel Police began investigating the circumstances of the accident, “Police forces on the spot are working to direct traffic. The road is blocked in the east direction in two lanes and there are traffic jams in the place”, it was reported.
Eli Arentroy, a ‘rescue team’ volunteer, adds: “When I arrived at the scene, I found a serious scene of a car accident in which a private car had collided with a truck, when the driver, a 30-year-old man, was trapped inside the private car and was unconscious in a critical condition. After the firefighters rescued the injured man, together Together with other MDA paramedics and medics, we gave him initial medical aid that included stopping bleeding, immobilization and dressings.