Last update - 00:00 10/03/2007
Four people killed, 13 injured in traffic accidents across country
By Eli Ashkenazi, Jack Houri and Roni Zinger-Heruti, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
Four people were killed Saturday in road accidents around the country.
A man was killed and his two children, aged two and five, moderately to seriously injured in an accident between Be'er Sheva and Gilat junction. According to the police investigation, the man's car veered off the road and crashed into a water tank.
The children were taken to Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva.
A man was killed and five people suffered light to moderate injuries in a vehicle collision on Route 85 between Acre and Safed. According to the police investigation, the accident was caused after one of the vehicles ignored a stop sign at a junction near the eastern exit of the village of Majd al-Krum. The injured were hospitalized Nahariya.
Earlier Saturday, a 33-year-old motorcyclist was killed when he was hit by a car near Safed after the car's driver ignored a traffic sign. The car driver was hospitalized with light injuries.
In a separate accident Saturday six people sustained moderate to serious injuries in a frontal collision between two cars at Hazorim junction. They were taken to Poria Hospital in Tiberias.