A serious vehicular accident involving a bus and a truck occurred on Kvish 6 (Highway 6) on Wednesday morning Taanis Esther near Sorek Interchange. United Hatzalah EMS personnel operated on the scene.

EMT Yanki Weinberg, who was among the first on the scene reported �When I arrived I realized it was a serious incident involving an empty bus and a truck. The driver of the bus was conscious but pinned inside, and he sustained multisystem trauma. I called the dispatcher requesting fire rescue to extricate him.

The bus driver, a chareidi male in his 50s, was transported to the hospital by a MDA chopper. He was sedated and intubated and flown to the trauma unit of Ichilov Hospital in very serious condition. The truck driver, a male in his 40s, was transported in a MDA paramedic unity to Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot, listed in moderate condition.

An update on Thursday on the bus driver�s condition unfortunately states his condition has worsened and he is now critical. The Seret-Vishnitz Rebbe Shlita added the name Chaim and the tzibur is asked to be mispallel for Chaim Eliyahu ben Rivka Rachel for a refuah shleima bsoch kol cholei yisrael.

(YWN Israel Desk � Jerusalem/Photo Credit: United Hatzalah Spokesman Unit)