Last update - 00:00 03/03/2007
Teen killed in tractor accident, 4 killed in car accidents over weekend
By Haaretz Service
Menachem and Nina Wisler were killed Saturday in a car accident next to the Tzur Yigal community in the Sharon region. One of their children, a 6-year-old daughter, was seriously injured.
The couple's two other children were lightly injured in the incident. The driver of the Jeep that collided with their vehicle was moderately hurt.
The initial investigation into the accident indicated that around three thirty in the afternoon the Wisler family headed out of Tzur Yigal, where they live, in their Mazda. The children had been seated in the back seat with seat belts on. When they arrived at the intersection outside their community they took a left turn toward Ra'anana and collided with a Jeep coming from the west. The driver of the Jeep is a Taibeh resident. The investigators believe that one of the two drivers ignored a red traffic light.
Yiftah Karni, a Magen David Adom emergency medical technician, described to Haaretz what he found at the scene of the accident, saying "when we arrived, we saw the parents on the ground, dead. An on-call MDA medic in Tzur Yigal had managed to extract the children from the vehicle by the time we had gotten there. Two of the children were relatively fine, and they were ushered onto a bus so that they would not see their parents. It appeared as though they did not really understand what had happened. The girl was unconscious and had suffered trauma to the head and chest. We treated her at the scene, and after we stabilized her, we transferred her to the hospital."
In a separate incident, three pedestrians walking on the side of the road near Kiryat Ata were seriously hurt Saturday when a vehicle hit them. The driver of the car, who was also hurt in the incident, said she did not see the three girls walking beside the road.
A 23-year-old pedestrian was killed late Friday night after he was hit by a truck near the southern entrance to Ashdod. The police's initial investigation revealed that the victim had crossed the street while inebriated when a commercial vehicle coming from the north struck him. The police are investigating whether the driver of the truck had also been under the influence of alcohol.
Earlier Friday, 14-year-old Kobi Asulin from Ramat Gan was killed when the all-terrain vehicle he was driving overturned in the fields near Kfar Truman, a farming community near Ben-Gurion International Airport.
The boy was found in critical condition, and Magen David Adom paramedics on the scene confirmed his death. The teen had apparently not been wearing a helmet.
Early Friday morning, 23-year-old Mohammed Natir was killed in a car accident on Ayalon highway near Tel Aviv. The passenger beside Natir was seriously hurt. The initial police investigation indicated that Natir had been driving despite the fact that his license had been revoked. For reasons unknown, Natir suddenly swerved and hit a light pole and then a railing. The vehicle overturned and Natir was killed instantly.