Two girls, new immigrants from France, perish in horrific accident on way to Eilat.
By: WIN Staff
Two girls, ages seven and four, were killed in a head-on collision on Route 90 on Thursday afternoon. They had just immigrated to Israel from France three months ago with their parents and had been on their way to Eilat for a family vacation, Israel media reports.
Magen David Adom teams confirmed the deaths of the girls and treated the other victims, two men, a woman and a 3-year-old toddler – the girls’ younger brother. The father of the girls was listed as moderately injured, the boy lightly injured. They were evacuated by helicopter to the Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva.
The cause of the accident still needs to be determined.
Anan Haham, an MDA paramedic, told Ynet news site, that he was on the way back from Eilat with his family when he saw the accident.
“I immediately stopped and quickly scanned the scene to assess the condition of the wounded. With the help of a military medical force that arrived on the scene and the MDA forces from the nearby communities, we gave medical treatment to the wounded, and unfortunately we had to determine the death of the girls after advanced and prolonged CPR,” he said.
Highway 90, which passes the Dead Sea and goes to the vacation resort of Eilat in Israel’s south, has been the scene of many accidents over the years. In 2018, an entire family of eight lost their lives on the road.
According to data presented by the Green Light Association for Safer Driving in Israel, more than 2,250 road accidents have occurred on Route 90 over the past 15 years.
Following the accident, the head of the Arava Regional Council, Eyal Blum, called on the prime minister, minister of transportation and minister of finance to provide the funding and planning to fix Route 90, Israel Hayom reports.
“There is no price too high for human life, and it is inconceivable that the elections will preoccupy the government, and it will not deal with the most important thing – preserving human life,” he said. (World Israel News)
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