13-Year-Old Killed in Car-Bus Crash in Samaria

A 13-year-old boy was killed Sunday afternoon in a traffic collision between a car and a bus near Shavei Shomron in the West Bank. A woman in her 40s was moderately injured, and the Red Crescent evacuated four additional injured people, whose condition was not immediately known.

Magen David Adom said the emergency call came in at 4:54 p.m. to its Yarkon region 101 dispatch center. Medics who arrived found the boy without signs of life and with severe multiple-system injuries, and pronounced him dead at the scene. The injured woman was taken to Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba.

Senior MDA medic Shnir Hala and medic Shmuel Agasi said, “This was a serious traffic accident between a car and a bus.” They said they found the boy unconscious, with no pulse and no breathing, and suffering from severe multi-system trauma. “Sadly, we had to declare his death at the scene,” they said. According to the medics, the woman driver had head and back injuries and was in moderate condition.

Police from the Ariel station in the Judea and Samaria District opened an investigation into the circumstances of the crash, which occurred near the village of Deir Sharaf. The accident came during a deadly 24-hour period on Israel’s roads, when five people were killed in five separate crashes, including a 22-year-old Haifa resident who died and a friend who was critically injured in an early-morning crash in the city.