One dead, 18 hurt as bus overturns in northern Israel

One person was killed and at least 18 others were injured when a bus overturned near the village of Zarzir in northern Israel on Wednesday evening.

There were 35 passengers on the vehicle, all of them Dan company bus drivers being shuttled home from central Israel, when it flipped over, Ynet reported.

An initial investigation of the incident indicated the driver of the bus made a right turn at excessive speed.

Magen David Adom paramedics arrived at the scene and helped evacuate trapped passengers. According to Channel 10, most of the passengers could independently walk.

One passenger, a 50-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Two passengers were moderately injured and 16 others suffered minor injuries.

“When we got there we saw a bus lying on its side in the middle of the road and there was lot of commotion,” a medic told the Haaretz daily soon after the accident. “People were stopping on the side of the roads and others came from nearby villages to help. Some of the injured passengers were lying on the road, others were trapped in the bus. We arrived in large force and with the help of firefighters are extracting the injured and giving them medical treatment.”

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