Police officer arrives at scene of bus accident near Kiryat Gat in south, finds his son killed in accident
Israel National News: Liron Avitan, 22, was killed on Saturday night when a Metropoline bus overturned into a ditch on Route 40 heading south, near Kiryat Gat.
Liron is the son of the commander of the Southern Traffic Police Department, Deputy Commissioner Yosef Avitan, who arrived at the scene of the accident and discovered that the victim was his son Liron. Magen David Adom (MDA) medics who were called to the scene of the accident pronounced Liron, who suffered multi-system trauma and showed no signs of life, dead on site.
MDA teams evacuated 12 people, including a 16-year-old boy, a 29-year-old man and a 43-year-old man, who were moderately injured and 9 others who were lightly injured, to Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva.