JERUSALEM (VINnews) — BDE: Two serious traffic accidents occurred on Wednesday evening in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh, leading to the passing of a 5-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl.
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The boy was named as Yisrael Ben-Tzion Goldstein, z’l, whose mother, Shoshana Goldstein, a’h, passed away two years ago at the age of 34 after collapsing in the street in her ninth month of pregnancy. Tragically, both twins born to her in an emergency birth before she passed away did not survive as well. Shoshana was survived by her husband, Rabbi Moshe Goldstein, and six other children.
The accident in Jerusalem occurred at the intersection of Petah Tikva and Zichron Yaakov streets in the Romema neighborhood of the city. Yisrael Ben-Tzion was critically injured when he was hit on his bicycle and was pronounced dead minutes later.
MDA emergency medics Mordechai Musai, Baruch Eliyahu Hoffman, and Eli Raymond reported that “When we arrived at the scene of the accident, there was a lot of commotion. We saw the cyclist, a child about 5 years old, lying unconscious after being hit by a car. We immediately performed medical examinations and noticed that he had no pulse and was not breathing and was suffering from a very serious head injury. We started performing advanced resuscitation operations, including compressions and respirations, and evacuated him to the hospital while continuing resuscitation operations.”
The accident in Beit Shemesh occurred on Yitzhak Nafcha Street in the Ramat Beit Shemesh Daled neighborhood. The victim, who passed away from her injuries shortly afterwards, was identified as Avigayil Yaakov A’H.
United Hatzalah volunteers Shmuel Arieli and Shuki Mana described the accident in Beit Shemesh: “When we arrived at the scene, we saw a 4-year-old girl lying on the road, without a pulse or breathing, with a multi-system injury after being hit by a car while riding a Bimba toy rider. Together with paramedics and additional medics from MDA and Hatzala, we immediately started performing advanced resuscitation operations on her, and she was evacuated by an MDA intensive care unit in critical condition, during continued resuscitation efforts, to the trauma room at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.”
In a third horrendous accident which occurred on Monday in Sderot, a 5-year-old girl riding a scooter was run over and killed. The incident occurred on Degania street and the girl was taken in critical condition to Barzilai hospital, where she died of her injuries.
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