A serious bus accident occurred in the Carmel tunnels. A 17-year-old girl named Or Elbaz was killed and 47 were injured, when a bus hit the wall of the Carmel tunnels in Haifa | A mass casualty event has been announced. This is the story of Gali Weizman, who was hit, fainted, broke her arm in an open fracture and walked by herself to the entrance of the tunnel until she was rescued to the hospital.
Gali Weizman walked in the Carmel tunnels with a broken arm
Gali Weizman tells Lahi Pa:
My friend, Adi, and I were on our way to a movie at the Grand Canyon in Haifa. We got on 115 and then at the Haifa mall we got on line 101. There was a long line for the bus and many passengers got on and huddled while standing. When we got on the bus, Rabbi Ko's machine was not working well, it was working but stuck all the time.
We started driving and the driver kept making small stops, the driver was driving really fast but nothing was suspicious to me.
After a few minutes I passed out. I don't remember the collision of the bus with the wall of the Carmel tunnels...
I woke up on the floor, people were walking on me, I was sure it was an attack.
There were screams around me. Glass was scattered on the floor of the bus and I woke up inside.
I started screaming so they would notice I was there, "Amal'ah... I'm alive!!!".
One boy (Harel) tried to help me get up from the floor of the bus, but he fainted himself when he tried to help me and fell down next to me.
So my friend (Adi) picked me up from the floor, we saw that the window was broken and we tried to get out of it, I couldn't climb to the window, because I couldn't feel my right hand.
We started to stress about the fact that we were stuck inside the bus, when suddenly the back door opened.
We got out of it, looked back at the smashed bus and the whole driver's side was crushed against the tunnel wall in the left lane. We sat down on the sidewalk to understand what happened to my hand. Then I saw the soldier whose arm was amputated below the shoulder.
When I saw the soldier, I realized that my injury was considered "minor", so I called my father to come pick us up, I was scared, because I still thought it was an attack and I didn't know if there was a terrorist in the area... At this stage, ambulances had not yet arrived at the scene.
Dad, I can't feel my hand
I told my father on the phone: "Dad, come quickly, there was an accident in the tunnels, I can't feel my hand."
Adi and I sat on the sidewalk, Adi suggested that we walk out of the tunnels and wait for my father outside. We started to walk from the place of the incident back towards the entrance of the exit from the tunnels in the west direction (Haifa Mall), the tunnel was completely empty and then my father called and said that the entrance was blocked, so he was walking towards us.
On the way we were offered rides, my girlfriend wanted to go up, but I was scared so we continued walking.
After half an hour - forty minutes of walking, one of the drivers told us that we still had three kilometers of walking ahead of us and that we would not be able to leave on foot, but we continued walking anyway...
We met my father at the entrance to the tunnel, he fixed my hand with his shirt, we got into the car and drove to Rambam.
We arrived at Rambam half an hour before all the ambulances that rescued victims from the incident... Rambam gave me a pain reliever and moved on to treat the more seriously injured who arrived in the ambulances.
At around 22:00 they took a picture of my hand because they already saw it was broken and transferred me to the children's emergency department.
There I met Harel again who tried to help me get off the bus, I thanked him and it turns out that when he tried to help me he lost consciousness, broke his nose and cracked his pelvis.
Around 00:30 they fixed my arm. During the examination and fixation, they saw that it was a more serious fracture than they first thought, so they told me that they would have to operate on me in order to fuse the humerus.
I was hospitalized until Sunday and the surgery was on Wednesday.
Now, I'm after the operation, the hand still hurts but I'm fine, compared to the other injured people I feel it was a miracle.
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