A 10-year-old girl was seriously injured and 39 others lightly hurt when a child transport bus collided with a truck on Route 1 between Yerushalayim and Tel Aviv. The majority of those injured were children riding in the bus, who were being transported – along with a number of parents – on a school trip.
The children, from an Even Yehuda school in Yerushalayim, were on their way to the hills surrounding Yerushalayim, according to reports.
An initial investigation found that the bus slammed into the back of the truck, though it is unclear what caused the accident. The seriously injured girl was sitting towards the front of the bus; investigators are unsure at this time whether she was wearing a seat belt.
The girl suffered a head wound and was treated by medics at the scene before being transported to a hospital in serious condition for further treatment.
The injured were taken to Shamir Medical Center in Be’er Yaakov and Hadassah Ein Kerem and Shaare Zedek hospitals in Yerushalayim for treatment and observation.
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there must be a way to curb the road disasters in Israel
praying for all the little ones and those injured….
I honestly wonder if that bus had functional seatbelts.
May Hashem send a quick and speedy recovery to all the injured.
It was horrible, it happened minutes before I drove up and the ambulances and Hatzalah cars were speeding past us on the other side of route 1. They couldn’t get across, it was right at the intersection by the exit from Modiin from where the accident occurred. It was clear this was a major accident….what is the child’s name for Tehillim?