Sudden lane departure sends bus into building, trapping pedestrians and triggering large-scale emergency response.
A city bus crashed into a street-level store in Ramat Gan on Friday morning, injuring ten people, one of them critically, after veering out of its lane for reasons still under investigation.
The collision occurred on Kiryat Bialik Street, where the bus mounted the sidewalk and slammed into a ground-floor shop beneath a residential building. Emergency services were immediately dispatched to the scene.
Medical teams from Magen David Adom treated a woman in her early 30s who suffered life-threatening, multi-system injuries. After intensive on-site treatment, she was evacuated in critical condition to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
First responders also rescued a young woman, approximately 25 years old, who had been trapped beneath the bus after being struck on the sidewalk. She was extracted and transported to hospital in serious condition with severe limb injuries and systemic trauma.
Another woman, around 60, sustained moderate injuries and was evacuated for further treatment. Eight additional passengers—most of them elderly women who were aboard the bus—were treated for light injuries and taken to hospital.
MDA officials said the scale of the incident prompted the rapid deployment of ambulances, mobile intensive care units, and rapid-response teams, emphasizing that quick coordination helped stabilize the injured and prevent further loss of life.
Police have launched an investigation to determine what caused the bus to leave its lane.
