Eleven people were killed and 46 injured last night when an Egged bus traveling from Beersheba to Tel Aviv collided head on with a bus going from Tel Aviv to Gaza on a narrow road near Kibbutz Saad. It was one of the most serious road accidents in Israel in recent years. Both buses were badly damaged. Forty-nine secondary school children were in the bus traveling to Gaza. They were returning from a visit to Tel Aviv, Haifa and Nathanya.
Ambulances and military medical men in the area rushed to the scene and within a short time the injured were taken to Ashkelon Hospital, from where they were flown by helicopters to other hospitals in Israel. Following the accident, Zevulun Hammer, a member of the Knesset from the National Religious Party, asked that a special session of the Knesset be convened to discuss the “highways mortality.”
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