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Electric scooter rider, 25, seriously hurt after car strikes her in Ramat Gan

A woman riding an electric scooter on Jerusalem Boulevard in Ramat Gan was taken to hospital with multi-system injuries after being hit by a car, Israeli media reported.

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Illustration of a quiet tree-lined boulevard in Ramat Gan at dawn with an electric scooter parked at the kerb

A 25-year-old woman riding an electric scooter was seriously injured after a car struck her on Jerusalem Boulevard in Ramat Gan, the Israeli broadcaster N12 reported in its news-flash channel. According to that report, paramedics from Magen David Adom treated her at the scene and took her to hospital with multi-system trauma. She was described as having impaired consciousness when she was evacuated.

Ynet, the news site of the Yedioth Ahronoth group, also carried an alert on the collision, describing the rider as a woman on an electric scooter who had been hit by a vehicle in Ramat Gan and was in serious condition. Neither outlet named the hospital that received her or gave details of the driver.

Where it happened

Ramat Gan is a city in central Israel that borders Tel Aviv to the east and forms part of the dense urban area Israelis call Gush Dan, the metropolitan region around Tel Aviv. Jerusalem Boulevard, given in Hebrew as Sderot Yerushalayim, is the street that N12 identified as the location of the crash. Ynet's alert named only the city.

Who responded

Magen David Adom, usually shortened to MDA, is Israel's national emergency medical, ambulance and blood service, and it fills the role that a Red Cross society plays in many other countries. Its paramedics and medics are typically the first medical responders at road collisions, and the organisation regularly releases footage and photographs from incidents. N12 attributed the image accompanying its report to MDA's own operational documentation.

What the medical terms mean

Israeli emergency reports grade casualties on a fixed scale, usually running from light through moderate and serious to critical. Both outlets placed this rider in the serious category, which in Israeli reporting signals injuries that are significant but a step below the most urgent, life-threatening classification.

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N12 said she had suffered multi-system trauma, a term paramedics use when an impact injures more than one part of the body or more than one organ system at once. The broadcaster also said she was conscious but not fully alert when she was taken away, which is the plain meaning of the Hebrew phrase it used. Neither report said whether she required surgery or what her condition was after arrival at hospital.

Electric scooters on Israeli roads

Electric scooters, known in Hebrew by the word kurkinet, are a common way of getting around the cities of central Israel, and collisions between riders and cars are a recurring item in Israeli news alerts. Both outlets that reported this incident did so through short flash bulletins on their Telegram channels, the format Israeli media use to push breaking local news to readers within minutes. The reports did not place this crash in any wider set of figures, and this article does not attempt to.

How the reports compare

The two accounts are consistent on the central facts: a woman on an electric scooter, struck by a vehicle in Ramat Gan, seriously hurt. N12's bulletin carried more detail, supplying her age, the street, the involvement of MDA crews and the nature of her injuries. Ynet's alert was a single line pointing readers to a fuller item on its website, which was not part of the material available for this report. The details beyond the basic event therefore rest on N12's account alone.

What the reports do not say

Neither report explained how the collision happened, whether the driver stayed at the scene, or whether police have opened an investigation. The rider was not named, the receiving hospital was not identified, and there has been no reported update on her condition since she was evacuated.

Topicsroad safetyramat ganelectric scootersmagen david adom

Sources and further reading

Every link below was opened and checked when this page was written. Official statements are marked as such: they are the subject's own account, not an independent one.

  1. Reportingyediotht.me
    Ynet alerts
  2. Reportingkeshett.me
    N12

How we checked this

The collision and the rider's serious condition were reported separately by Ynet and N12. Her age, the street, MDA's role and the description of her injuries come from N12 alone; we have not independently verified them.

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