Two casualties in separate car accidents in Lebanon’s Metn

A young Lebanese man, identified as Maurice Hayek, was killed on Thursday when his car crashed into a shop wall in the Metn town of Jal al-Dib, the National News Agency reported.
 
Hayek, age 19, lost control of his Mercedes car while driving at a high speed and crashed into the wall of the Wooden Bakery shop in Jal al-Dib.
 
Meanwhile, a concrete mixer truck tipped over on the Nahr al-Mawt highway on Thursday morning. The road serves as a major thoroughfare that links Beirut’s Dora to the city of Jounieh.
 
The overturned truck crushed a taxi cab that was present on the highway at that time.
 
According to the Lebanese Red Cross, the truck driver, Walid al-Jardali, was the only person injured.
 
The taxi driver was not inside his car when the truck turned over.