Fatal accident at Acre junction: police car crossed a red light - and collided with a private vehicle
A 59-year-old woman was killed at the Acre junction after a police car crossed a red light and collided with her vehicle. Her 29-year-old daughter was moderately injured. The director of the Coastal District of Magen David Adom instructed not to cross junctions on a red light.
A 59-year-old woman was killed today (Saturday) in a fatal road accident at the Acre junction on Highway 4, after a police car crossed the junction on a red light and collided forcefully with the private vehicle in which the deceased and her daughter were traveling. Her 29-year-old daughter was moderately injured. Fire and rescue forces extricated the deceased, who was trapped in the vehicle in critical condition, and a Magen David Adom team evacuated her and her daughter to the hospital in Nahariya while performing resuscitation. Her death was determined at the hospital. Magen David Adom paramedic Avraham Kessous and medic Reut Mashali described a difficult scene with two trapped women, one without a pulse and not breathing. Following the accident, the director of the Coastal District of Magen David Adom instructed teams not to cross junctions on a red light until further notice.