Mrs. Naomi Naftali was tragically struck by an electric bicycle in Machane Yehuda Shuk two weeks ago. A 70-year-old woman who was struck by an electric bicycle and died in hospital as a result of cranial bleeding R”L after about two weeks. The operator of the bike is a person in his 30s.

According to witnesses, he struck the woman very hard and she fell to the ground and sustained a head injury. It is reported she got up relatively quickly but an ambulance was summoned nonetheless.

The woman was taken to Shaare Zedek Hospital and was conscious upon arrival in the emergency room but her CT showed she was bleeding into her brain which lead to a hemorrhagic stroke. She fell into unconsciousness before doctors could really examine her. The decision was made for an urgent transport to Hadassah Ein Kerem for emergency neurosurgery. In the interim, a second CT showed the internal bleeding was becoming more severe. It was realized her chances of recovering were slim at best but the decision was made to still try to intervene with life-saving surgery.

After the surgery at Hadassah it was learned she had sustained severe neurological impairment to her brainstem and doctors told the family she would never walk or speak again. The family was summoned to the hospital on erev Shabbos as her condition took a turn for the worse and then again on motzei Shabbos. By the time they arrived she was no longer alive.

Officials in Hadassah explain by the time the woman arrived, she had already suffered massive cranial bleeding.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)