Last update - 00:00 23/03/2007
Woman, 24, killed in traffic accident outside of Afula
By Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz Correspondent
A 24-year-old resident of Afula was killed Saturday morning in a car accident on Highway 65. According to police, the victim, who was driving the car, was not wearing her seat belt at the time of the accident.
Early Saturday morning the woman was driving on a section of Highway 65 which bypasses Afula when for unknown reasons, she veered out of her lane and hit an electricity pole in the traffic median.
The driver was thrown from her car and died on the scene. Her sister, who was sitting in the passenger seat of the car, was seriously wounded and an additional passenger was lightly to moderately wounded.
Police who arrived on the scene said the driver had not been wearing her seatbelt and that her death could have been prevented had she been wearing it.
A 25-year-old resident of the north of Israel was killed on Friday morning in a car accident on Highway 90 northeast of Lake Kinneret after he lost control of his car, flipping several times and landing on the shoulder of the road.
Area transportation police stated that the driver was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the collision and when the car began flipping, he was thrown thrown from the car before then being crushed to death underneath the still overturning vehicle.
Earlier on Friday morning, one person was seriously injured and other moderately after their car overturned north of Dimona. Paramedics who arrived on the scene evacuated the injured to Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva.