Belgrade: Overpass Fall and Scooter Hits Pregnant Woman
Belgrade's emergency service logged 103 calls overnight. A man fell from an overpass in Rakovica and reached VMA unconscious, and an electric scooter knocked down a pregnant woman.
Belgrade’s City Institute for Emergency Medical Aid released its morning rundown of the night’s calls, and two cases involved severe injuries. A man was severely injured after a fall from an overpass in Rakovica. In a separate case, an electric scooter knocked down a pregnant woman. Both patients ended up at the Military Medical Academy.
The fall happened at 10:38 p.m., on Prvoboraca Street near number 40. An emergency crew treated the man at the scene before rushing him to the Military Medical Academy, known as VMA. He arrived unconscious, with severe bodily injuries.
The circumstances of the fall were not disclosed. The Service did not release the man’s age or say whether anyone witnessed the fall.
What is known about the overpass fall in Rakovica
An overpass is a pedestrian crossing above a road or rail line, so a fall from one is typically a fall from a height of several meters. For now, the official information on this case is limited to the time, the address, and the severity of the injuries. The Service reported what its crew found and did on scene, nothing beyond that.
The call came in shortly before midnight, and the injured man reached VMA unconscious. The Service did not say how long the crew spent on scene or how long the transport took. The morning rundown does not indicate whether this was an accident, a determination that falls to police and prosecutors rather than the emergency service anyway.
Electric scooter knocks down pregnant woman
The night’s second severe case happened while a pregnant woman was out walking. An electric scooter struck her. She was treated in two steps: a gynecologist examined her first, and she was then treated for a concussion.
She was kept at the Military Medical Academy for further observation. That was confirmed by Ivan Lekovic, VMA’s chief surgeon on duty.
It was not disclosed whether the scooter’s rider stayed at the scene, and there is no information on whether any proceedings were opened over the incident.
A hundred and three calls in one night
The Service’s rundown shows how much work the crews handled overnight:
- 103 interventions in total
- 18 interventions in public places
- most calls came from chronic and cardiac patients
“During the night, Emergency Service crews carried out 103 interventions, 18 of which were in public places,” the City Institute for Emergency Medical Aid stated in its morning report.
The Service listed the figure for chronic and cardiac patients separately from the public-place interventions. Crews handled the remaining 85 calls away from public places, meaning in apartments and houses. The two severe injuries, the one in Rakovica and the one involving the pregnant woman, are among those eighteen.
Both patients were admitted to the same facility. That night, the Military Medical Academy was the receiving hospital for both the unconscious man and the pregnant woman with the concussion. In both cases, the transport was carried out by a City Institute for Emergency Medical Aid crew.
We previously reported on an intervention that also began with a fall. A 14 year old girl was taken to the Institute after falling from a horse near Surcin. There too, an emergency crew was first on the scene before handing the patient over to the hospital.
The Service’s morning rundowns do not report on patients’ condition after they are handed over to the hospital. What happens next for the man who fell from the overpass and the pregnant woman with the concussion is now up to VMA’s doctors.
