{"id":279665,"date":"2026-09-05T22:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/279665\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T22:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:49:12","slug":"two-dead-six-injured-in-weekend-traffic-accidents-across-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/279665\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead, six injured in weekend traffic accidents across Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were killed, and six were injured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-906979\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traffic accidents<\/a> across the country over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Saturday, a man around 45 years old was killed in a hit-and-run on Route 553 near Moshav Porat. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-907388\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Magen David Adom (MDA)<\/a> paramedics called to the scene found him with severe multi-system trauma and no signs of life, and were forced to pronounce him dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The driver, a woman in her 30s, was arrested shortly after fleeing the crash site and taken in for questioning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Overnight Friday, a 48-year-old motorcyclist was killed while riding on Route 7 at the Sorek Interchange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Elsewhere, a 4-year-old boy was struck by a vehicle, likely near his home&#8217;s parking area in Pisgat Ze&#8217;ev; he was evacuated to the hospital in critical condition, without a pulse or breathing.<\/p>\n<p>In another Friday accident, a two-vehicle collision on Route 3755 near Har Gilo left a 50-year-old man seriously injured, while two others sustained light to moderate injuries. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-907593\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Firefighters<\/a> extricated two of the victims after they were trapped in their vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Near the Caesarea Port, a 30-year-old man was critically injured in a crash and rushed to the hospital with multi-system trauma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In Netanya, a motorcyclist was severely injured after being hit by a car and was also taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>MDA paramedic Orian Lukac and senior EMT Maor Nino from MDA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-901770\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">motorcycle<\/a> unit said: &#8220;This was a severe accident. Witnesses told us the motorcyclist was hit by a vehicle. He was unconscious with a severe head injury. We provided medical treatment and evacuated him to the hospital in an MDA intensive care unit vehicle in serious condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were killed, and six were injured in traffic accidents across the country over the weekend. Earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[19840,30238,37,31918,49079,547,33673,27781],"class_list":["post-279665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-accident","tag-car-accident","tag-israel","tag-motorcycle","tag-road-accidents","tag-traffic","tag-traffic-accident","tag-traffic-accidents"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117220878892528979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}