A Woman And Her Son Were Killed Tuesday In A Car Accident Near Kibbutz Hulda

"A woman and her son were killed Tuesday in a car accident near kibbutz Hulda in the Beit Shemesh area. Naomi Kaplinski, 66, of Jerusalem and her son Boaz, 36, of Yavne died instantly as their car crashed with a vehicle in the opposite lane. Boaz Kaplinski's baby boy and the driver of the other car sustained serious injuries but their lives are out of danger. One of the cars veered into the opposite lane for an unknown reason, and crashed into the car that was coming towards it. The baby who was sitting in the back seat next to his grandmother was seriously injured. Magen David Adom paramedics evacuated the injured passengers to Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot.

Head of the police Traffic Department in the Shfela region, Chief Inspector Ya'akov Cohen, admitted "it's possible that if a separation railing between the two lanes had been installed on the road the accident would have been avoided. The injured passenger gave testimony to the police traffic inspectors in-spite of his serious injuries and said he was driving in the designated lane and he does not "understand where the second car that crashed into me come from.

Accidents in Kfar Chabad and Bara. In a similar accident a man of 25 was killed Tuesday evening in the village of Barra near Rosh Ha?aiyn. Four more people were lightly injured in the incident. An initial police investigation revealed that the man, who was driving a private car collided head-on into a van driving straight at him in a narrow road. One of the vehicles veered off its lane for an unknown reason. The man was evacuated to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva but died shortly after arriving. He was meant to marry his sweetheart this weekend.

In another accident on Tuesday evening a motorcyclist was killed in Kfar Chabad. His six-year-old son who was riding with him sustained moderate injuries. No other vehicles +were involved in the accident..."

Source: Yuval Azoulay, Roni Singer and Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondents. Five killed in car accidents across the country. Haartez.com (26 April 2005) [FullText]