A boy was seriously and unstably injured Tuesday evening in Bnei Brak after falling while riding an electric bicycle in the Sofrim complex area on Lehi Street. Initial reports reached emergency dispatchers at 8:42 p.m. According to first accounts, two riders were on the bike when control was lost for reasons that were not yet clear, causing both to slide hard on the road.
Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah crews arrived within minutes and gave the child life-saving treatment at the scene. He suffered a severe head injury and injuries to his limbs, and responders worked to stabilize him while bystanders gathered nearby. United Hatzalah volunteers Yitzy Karmelovsky, Harel Rosh and Odel Pinchas said: “We treated a child who fell from an electric bicycle and was hurt in his head and limbs. With the help of additional medics, we gave him medical care at the scene. He was then evacuated to the hospital in serious condition.”
MDA senior medic Yosef Pesach said they were called to an incident involving an electric bicycle that had slipped. “When we arrived we saw a boy about 9 years old, unconscious and suffering a severe head injury,” he said. “We gave him medical treatment and evacuated him in an MDA intensive care ambulance to the hospital in serious and unstable condition.” The child was taken to the trauma room at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
The report said the incident highlights the dangers of children and teenagers riding electric bicycles, a common sight in recent years in ultra-Orthodox cities. Safety experts again warned that electric bikes are powerful and fast vehicles, and that riding them under the legal age, without a helmet and without knowledge of traffic laws, repeatedly leads to serious and avoidable accidents. The public was asked to pray for the boy’s full recovery.
