A 3-year-old toddler was killed at noon (Friday) by a car on Halali Agadir Street in Lod. He was brought in critical condition to the MDA station in the city and is being resuscitated at Assaf Harofeh Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.
The report of the accident was received at 13:49 at MDA’s 101 hotline in the Ayalon area. MDA medics and paramedics who treated him said that he suffered a multi-system injury. Police have begun investigating the circumstances of the accident.
MDA paramedics Amit Michael and Shlomi HaCohen said: “We were at the station when we suddenly heard a knock on the door, we were handed a toddler who was unconscious with no pulse and no breathing with severe multi-systemic injury. “We immediately started performing resuscitation operations on him, took him to the intensive care unit and evacuated him to the hospital during resuscitation operations when his condition was defined as human.”
Data from the Green Light Association show that this is the first child killed in a car accident in 2021. According to the data, in 2020, 24 children were killed in road accidents – two each month on average. According to the National Road Safety Authority (Harlevad) since the beginning of the year, 27 people have been killed in road accidents.
Erez Kita, CEO of the Green Light Association, said that “The heart is broken when we hear about another child who was killed in a car accident. The State of Israel ranks first and worst in the proportion of children killed in road accidents, among OECD countries. “The children who have been locked up in homes for a long time are now coming out of the long closure and the fear is that their danger of being injured in a car accident increases when they are more and more on the streets.”
“Traffic must be moderated and the speed of vehicles must be curbed in a high concentration of children, such as educational institutions or public kindergartens. Slows, raising crossings and other simple actions can prevent the next child from being killed.”