Ramat Gan: 10 injured after bus drives into store, one critical

A bus crashed into a Ramat Gan store Friday morning, injuring 10 people, including one critically.

The bus veered out of its lane for a reason which is not yet clear, and crashed into a store located on the ground floor of a residential building on the city's Kiryat Bialik Street.

As a result of the crash, a woman of about 30 was critically injured. Magen David Adom (MDA) personnel called to the scene found the woman suffering very serious injuries and provided her with lifesaving medical treatment, after which they evacuated her to Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital.

First responders identified a young woman, approximately 25 years old, trapped under a bus after being hit while walking on the sidewalk. Following her extraction, she was evacuated to the hospital in serious condition, suffering from severe injuries to her limbs and multi-system trauma.

In addition to her, a woman around 60 years old was evacuated in moderate condition; she had been near the bus at the time of the collision. Eight other individuals, most of them elderly women who were on the bus, were evacuated in light condition.

Avichai Hadad, manager of MDA's Dan Region, described the moments of receiving the report: "As soon as we received the call on Magen David Adom’s emergency hotline, we understood it was a serious accident, and dispatched large forces of ambulances, intensive care units, and Magen David Adom’s rapid response teams to the scene; they arrived quickly."

Yaron Hatukha, deputy manager for the region, added: "We saw a young woman, about 25, trapped under the bus and suffering from multi-system trauma, and near the bus was a woman about 60 years old who was conscious and suffered injuries. We lifted them into the ambulances and intensive care units and urgently evacuated them to the hospital. Additionally, we treated and evacuated 8 light injuries from the bus, most of them elderly women."

First responders Haim Bergman, Moshe Adler, and Leiby Weiss reported: "We found a pedestrian, a woman of about 30, unconscious and suffering multi-system injuries after being hit by a bus that drove onto the sidewalk and rammed into a building."

"We provided her with initial medical treatment, including stopping life-threatening bleeding, bandaging, and fixation, and she was evacuated in critical condition for treatment at the trauma room in Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv."