The 18-year-old driver who collided with a car earlier this month, killing a mother and baby daughter, was driving at over 170 kilometers an hour (105 mph) when the crash took place, according to Channel 12.
The suspect, Tareq Kurd from East Jerusalem, is arrested again on Sunday, as new findings in the crash emerge. He had previously been released, after his blood test from came back without traces of alcohol or drugs.
Kurd’s car struck the vehicle in which the Rimel family was traveling on Route 443 near the Givat Ze’ev settlement on December 1.
Tzippi Rimel, 34, was killed along with her infant daughter Noam. Her husband Ephraim and 12-year-old son Itay were critically injured and remain hospitalized at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center. Both are in life-threatening condition, with doctors fearing that Ephraim could be facing paralysis in much of his body and Itay still unconscious and hooked up to a respirator.
Tzippi Rimel (R) with her husband Ephraim and 3-week-old daughter, Noam. (Courtesy)
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