60-year-old electric bicycle rider hit by car in Ashkelon, condition serious

A 60-year-old electric bicycle rider was seriously injured after being hit by a car on David Ben Gurion Boulevard in Ashkelon. The report was received at the 101 emergency hotline at 15:48. MDA teams provided life-saving treatment and evacuated him in a mobile intensive care unit to Barzilai Hospital, suffering from multi-system trauma.

A 60-year-old electric bicycle rider was seriously injured after being hit by a car at the intersection of David Ben Gurion Boulevard and Nahal Street in Ashkelon. The accident report was received at the MDA Lachish region 101 emergency hotline at 15:48. Medics and paramedics who arrived at the scene found the rider lying by the roadside, conscious and suffering from severe body injuries. They provided life-saving medical treatment and evacuated him in a mobile intensive care unit to Barzilai Hospital, where he is in serious condition with multi-system trauma. MDA paramedics Afek Zarbiv and Ben Zion Tatro from the motorcycle unit and emergency medic Alexander Tablin described the incident.