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A serious accident occurred during the night between Tuesday and Wednesday 24 Iyar at the intersection of Routes 443 and 444 near Modi’in Junction. Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah responded.
UH EMT Natan Merav explains “We were on the way back from a family simcha in Modi’in Illit and I came across the serious accident involving two vehicles. I got out to assist and found a child in a car seat outside of the vehicle. He was in traumatic arrest. I began CPR while calling for additional units”.
MDA reports the three-year-old child was transported to Assaf HaRofeh Hospital in grave condition while CPR and advanced resuscitation was ongoing. A 24-year-old woman was transported with a head injury, listed in moderate condition. Three others were taken to Tel Hashomer Hospital, listed in light condition along with a man in his 30s with an abdominal injury, listed in moderate condition.
The hospital on Wednesday morning announced the child’s condition remains critical and he is on a respirator. All the others are in stable condition.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem/Photos: Media Resource Group)
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Hashem Yishmor!!! A horror story. This is a very busy and tricky intersection to negotiate. Having been there more than once I can testify to the fact that people from the Dept of Traffic (actually no idea what that gov’t office is actually called) should work on a better traffic light system. Cars have to cross over past oncoming lanes and then get from all the way to the left to all the way to the right, several lanes across, in order to get onto 444.