Two teen boys were killed and 16 people were injured — six of them seriously — in two separate serious car crashes early Monday morning, on and adjacent to the Route 6 highway.
In the first accident, a car carrying six people hit a guardrail on the north-south highway, east of Hadera.
Two teens aged 13 and 16 were killed. The car’s driver, 38, was moderately injured, as were two other teens aged 13 and 16 and an 8-year-old boy.
Medics rushed the injured to Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera for treatment. Police believe the driver lost control of the vehicle for unknown reasons and crashed into the barrier.
In the second crash, two vans carrying passengers suffered a head-on collision on the Eyal Interchange bridge running over Route 6 near Kfar Saba, some 25 kilometers south of the first incident.
Eleven people were hurt, of which one was in critical condition, five were seriously hurt and another five suffered mild injuries.
The crashes led to sections of the highway being closed off.
Magen David Adom medics who responded to the scene of the first crash said: “The two teens suffered severe multiple injuries. We tried to save them… but unfortunately, they showed no signs of life and within a short time we were forced to declare them dead.”
On Saturday a woman was killed in a crash between two vehicles on Route 90 near the northern town of Kiryat Shmona. The collision apparently led the victim’s car to hit a security barrier on the roadside, crushing it.
Paramedics who arrived on the scene found that car’s driver, in her 20s, unconscious and in serious condition. After failing to resuscitate her, the paramedics declared her dead on site, MDA said.
The second car was found next to the road. Its driver, a 59-year-old man, suffered a chest injury and was taken in a light condition to Ziv Medical Center in Safed.
According to the latest data from the National Road Safety Authority, 346 people have been killed in 313 traffic accidents since the beginning of the year.