Dr. Alexandra Tirosh and the dogs Essie and George/courtesy of the family
The pedestrian who was killed in the horrific accident last night (Wednesday) in the center of Carmel is Dr. Eli (Alexandra) Tirosh, the 72-year-old children's dentist. George, one of the two dogs with whom she went for an evening walk in the neighborhood as usual, was also killed in the accident. She was injured in the accident composed on the corner of Kadima Street, where one vehicle went out of control, hit another vehicle that stepped on the sidewalk and stopped near a cafe. The vehicles collided with each other and with a tree on the sidewalk.
Assi, the dog that was with Tirosh, returned home injured alone and actually called the deceased's husband that way , Prof. Emanuel Tirosh, who left the house after her. "I started looking for her in the neighborhood, I came to this accident and then I realized that there might be a catastrophe here on a personal level," told Walla! Prof. Tirosh, who ran the Child Development Institute at the Bnei Zion Medical Center. Tirosh also He is one of the faculty of the Technion's Faculty of Medicine and one of the founders and chairmen of the Association for Child Development in Israel. "George suffered such a severe injury that he could not be saved."
George the dog died in an accident/courtesy of the family
The scene of the event in Haifa / Yoav Ityel
The incident took place in the evening.
At 9:46 p.m., a report was received at the MDA call center in the Carmel area about a car driver who apparently lost control, stepped on the sidewalk and hit a pedestrian and stopped at an empty cafe on Kadima Street in Haifa. MDA medics and paramedics who gave her medical treatment evacuated her to the hospital Rambam is in serious condition with a head injury.
Emergency medicine medic at MDA Omer Yehoshua said: "We saw the vehicle that was on the sidewalk with a tin impact on the front part, the injured woman was lying on the sidewalk unconscious and suffering from a severe head injury.
We immediately began performing medical treatment that included stopping bleeding, immobilizing her on a back board and breathing and we urgently evacuated her to the hospital in an MDA intensive care vehicle."
Shortly after she was brought to the hospital, doctors there had to pronounce her dead.
Aharon Yehuda Horowitz, an Ihud Hatzla medic who arrived at the scene of the accident, added that medics provided first aid to the driver of the car who was slightly injured.
The dog Asi, who was injured in the accident and called Prof. Tirosh/courtesy of the family
"She was flying at about 100 Kmsh", an eyewitness estimated the speed of the vehicle that hit him and described "a jeep driven by an elderly woman who was a bit shocked".
He told Walla that "a woman who was walking with dogs at a crosswalk on Keller Street entered with great force. It seems to me that she zigzagged before and hit other things. After hitting the woman, she continued and then collided with a Kia car coming down the street from below and both cars flew onto the sidewalk and collided with a tree Near the cafe where people were sitting. A miracle."
Dr. Eli Tirosh, 72 years old, mother of 3 sons and grandmother of 6 grandchildren, was a Haifaite by birth and a graduate of the Reali Hebrew School in Haifa. She served in the Air Force, studied dentistry in Hadassah and worked as a children's dentist until her retirement about 10 years ago. Tirosh She was active in the Children at Risk Association in the North and in the Lawn Bowling Club in Haifa in addition to being an amateur photographer. "Her family and the community lost a great deal," say her acquaintances.
The police are investigating the circumstances of the fatal accident. The deceased's body was sent for a post-mortem at the National Institute of Forensic Medicine in Abu Kabir and has not yet been released for burial. The date of her funeral is not yet known.
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