Teen sisters killed, mother injured in car crash

Head-on collision in Jezreel Valley, northern Israel, also wounds fourth person after one vehicle veers into opposing lane

Two teenage girls were killed Tuesday, while their mother was seriously injured, in a car crash in the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. A fourth man was in moderate condition.

The two sisters, 13 and 14, were killed in a collision between two vehicles on Road 66, near Kibbutz Mishmar Haemek. Police said one of the cars had veered into the opposite lane, for reasons unknown, and rammed into the side of the other.

The mother ,45, and the man from the second car, in his 40s, were evacuated to Haifa’s Rambam Hospital to receive care. It was not immediately clear which car had caused the collision.

The road was temporarily blocked in both directions due to the accident.

“It was a very bad head-on collision,” Magen David Adom paramedic Yossi Halabi told Ynet news.

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“One of the cars was completely squashed. Two girls were trapped in the back seat, unconscious with no breath or pulse, and suffering massive bodily damage. After they were pulled out we were forced to declare them dead,” he said.

The woman and the man, he said, were evacuated by helicopter from the scene, both fully conscious.