Posted on 06/21/2005 9:03:59 AM PDT by yoely
Dozens of people were injured in a collision between a truck and a passenger train that occurred by Kibbutz Revadim, near Yeruham Tuesday afternoon.
The train was on its way from Tel Aviv to Beersheba when the collision occurred.
As a result of the collision, the train was derailed and two cars were flipped over.
Three of the wounded were in critical condition and were airlifted to Tel Hashomer Hospital in Petah Tikva. Over 100 passenegers received treatment on the scene. Some passengers may have been killed, medics said.
Passengers remained trapped under the wreckage, and rescue specialists, including the elite Homefront Command search and rescue unit, were on the scene.
The incident was declared a mass casualty event, and helicopters to dispatch the wounded were dispatched to the scene of the collision.
The train was making its way from Haifa to Beersheba when a truck, which had just left Kibbutz Revadim carrying chicken cages, seems to have crossed the train tracks at an ungated crossing.
Hospital emergency numbers: Sheba Tel HaShomer Medical Center: 12 551 31 Soroka Medical Center emergency number 1255177
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Suicide trucker with chicken cages? Doesn't sound like it. Sounds like more of an accident.
DAMNN I saw BBC homepage it pretty bad guys
My prayers goes out to all injuried passanger
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Too many train crashes in the past month. This is the fourth big one that's made FR>
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