The overturned bus, February 10th, 2019. (photo credit: FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE)
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Two people died and at least 41 were injured on Sunday when a #304 bus on a Jerusalem-Tel Aviv suburb highway overturned, Magen David Adom paramedics have confirmed.
Of the 41 injured, two were in serious condition, five were moderately wounded and 34 were lightly injured, MDA said in a statement.
סרטון ממקום התהפכות האוטובוס בכביש מספר 443, הכביש חסום לתנועה ובמקום מספר רב של פצועים. תודה למוקד צבאי בטחוני 443. pic.twitter.com/oKFKeJg5Z4
— בני כבודי (@benikvodi) February 10, 2019
The bus, which was outside the city of Modi’in on Highway 443, was photographed on its side punctured by the highway’s guard rail, with the entire front windshield blown out. The vehicle flipped over after an accident with a truck outside of Beit Horon, a United Hatzalah spokesman said in a statement.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “we all pray for the health of the injured,” he remarked before a weekly cabinet meeting.
“Due to the nature of the incident the organization is also dispatching members of its Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit to the scene to help treat individuals suffering emotional or psychological stress,” the statement said.
A senior Magen David Adom medic, Uriel Goldberg, said in a statement he was one of the first to respond after he heard a “tremendous noise.”
“I was treating a minor accident on Route 443 at the [Modi’in-]Maccabim exchange when suddenly I heard a very tremendous noise from the opposite lane and saw the bus turn upside down,” he said. “We were able to extract the dozens of passengers who were on the bus, along with help from other MDA teams who arrived quickly to the site.”
Injured passengers were evacuated to area hospitals, including Jerusalem’s Har Hatzofim, Shaarei Tzedek and Hadasah Ein Kerem.
The highway was closed to traffic in both directions.
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