A deadly night on the road: 4 dead on Route 90, the IDF force was called

MDA paramedics who arrived at the scene had to determine the death of 4 people, including: a car driver, a 35-year-old man who was traveling alone in the car, and the death of 3 passengers from the other vehicle, including a 45-year-old man, a 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl.

In addition, MDA medics and paramedics, in cooperation with the IDF medical force, provided medical treatment and evacuated two more injured people to the hospital by helicopter. Among the wounded who were evacuated, a 40-year-old woman is in serious condition, conscious, with injuries to her stomach and pelvis, and a 17-year-old boy is in moderate condition with injuries to his limbs.

MDA emergency medic Yonatan Narisena and senior MDA medic Eli Shariki who arrived at the scene said: “We arrived at the scene very quickly and saw two crushed vehicles in the middle of the road and a commotion around them. We did a quick scan and saw 6 casualties in this serious accident, one of the vehicles was 5 passengers and in the second only a driver who was killed on the spot, in the vehicle in which the five were traveling, 3 of them had no signs of life and we had to determine their death on the spot, a boy about 17 years old and a woman about 40 years old were conscious and suffered from injuries, we gave them life-saving treatment and evacuated them to an MDA helicopter and a military helicopter that landed nearby and evacuated them to the hospital, with the woman’s condition serious and the boy’s condition mild to moderate.”

In addition, rescue forces were called to the scene, when the first team that arrived at the scene began the operations of rescuing the trapped, scanning for trapped, and ruling out additional trapped. This is in addition to the disconnection of energy sources and assistance to the medical personnel present at the scene.

The Middle Arava Regional Council is aware of the dangers on the road where the accident happened. After the serious accident last night, the council said: “The Arava road is considered a “red” road, narrow and dark, which claims victims in traffic accidents every week. The Middle Arava Regional Council is being urged to find a way to speed up the expansion of road 90 from the Arava intersection to the entrances of Eilat, in order to prevent injury to the soul, due to The many accidents and constant traffic congestion on this road.”