Israeli killed in hit-and-run crash outside Boston

An Israeli man, 44, was the victim of a fatal hit-and-run accident on Cape Cod in Massachusetts Thursday night. He was driving a rented minivan with several Israeli passengers, including children, police said.

Amnon Bogomolsky was visiting the US with his son, who was in the minivan when the accident took place. They were on a trip celebrating the bar mitzvah of one of the passengers, an Israeli consulate spokesman in Boston told the Boston Globe.

The three-vehicle accident occurred at about 8 p.m. Thursday, at the base of the Sagamore Bridge in Bourne. A pickup truck merging onto Route 6 east struck another pickup, which was traveling east approaching the bridge.

The second truck careened into the westbound lanes, striking the victim’s minivan head-on and pushing it into the guard rail, police said.

Bogomolsky was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Cape Cod Times reported that six people were injured, including at least one child. The passengers in the van, which had New Jersey plates, were also from Israel.

The driver of the second pickup, a 43-year-old man from Sandwich, was ejected from his vehicle. He was taken to South Shore Hospital with serious injuries.

The vehicle that allegedly caused the crash drove away. Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a dark-colored truck with minor or moderate damage to its left front end or left side.

The crash caused the shutdown of the bridge in both directions for several hours, snarling traffic on the July Fourth holiday.