Car crashes killed nine Israelis and injured several more across the country over the weekend.
Three young men, two in their 20s and the 18-year-old driver, were killed in a car accident on the Tamra junction of Highway 70 in the lower Galilee area early Saturday morning.
MDA paramedics arriving at the scene confirmed their deaths. A spokesman for the organization reported that a vehicle overturned at the junction.
“The three passengers were trapped inside. They were unconscious, without breathing and with no pulse,” one paramedic said.
Several hours earlier, on Friday afternoon, a traffic accident in the Binyamin region left four people dead and two more injured. One of those dead was a three-year-old and another six-year-old.
The injured were a nine-year-old girl and a man and woman in their 30s. They were taken to the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva.
Earlier still on Friday, a 47-year-old tractor driver was killed after his vehicle flipped over on a dirt road in northern Israel. The medics who came to resuscitate him were forced to declare his death not long after their arrival.
A 50-year-old also died after his private vehicle flipped over on Route 40.
"We are at the end of a particularly deadly and bloody year on the roads," said Erez Kita, CEO of the Green Light Association, following the tragic incidents of the weekend. "Years of neglect and budget cuts have led Israel to become one of the countries lagging behind in the fight against road homicide among all European countries."