Man, 25, Dies in Crash Near Aleksinac
The driver lost control of his Mercedes on the road between Donji Adrovac and Trnjane. Alcohol and phone use are suspected, and the investigation continues.
A 25-year-old man died last night in a car crash on the road between the villages of Donji Adrovac and Trnjane, in the Aleksinac municipality. The car he was driving, a Mercedes E190 with Aleksinac license plates, ran off the road and struck a tree.
Sources disagree on the exact time of the crash. Telegraf reports it happened around 8:45 p.m., while Blic puts it at around 8:30 p.m. The gap is roughly fifteen minutes, but both outlets agree on the location: a stretch of local road connecting the two villages within the Aleksinac municipality.
The victim has so far been identified only by his initials, D. Dj. For reasons that have not yet been established, he lost control of the vehicle while driving. The car veered off the road to the right and struck a tree with great force. The impact left the driver with injuries incompatible with life.
An ambulance crew was dispatched to the scene, but medical help could no longer make a difference. Paramedics were only able to confirm his death. D. Dj. died at the scene, before the ambulance even reached the stretch of road between the two villages.
Police carried out an on-site investigation, the procedure used to establish the vehicle’s exact position relative to the roadway, any braking marks, and how the crash unfolded. As required by procedure, the case was reported to the competent Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Aleksinac, which is now handling the file and will decide on further steps. An autopsy has also been ordered, a standard step whenever a traffic accident ends in death, and its findings are expected to establish the exact cause of death.
According to unofficial information from the investigation, D. Dj. is suspected to have been driving under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash. There is also a suspicion that he was using his mobile phone shortly before losing control of the car. If both circumstances are confirmed, they could explain why the driver failed to react in time and keep the car on the road instead of veering off into the tree beside it.
For now, these are strictly claims from informal sources close to the investigation, not an official finding from the prosecution or the police. The prosecution has yet to release the results of the on-site investigation, and the autopsy, along with any toxicology analysis, will show whether the driver was in fact under the influence of alcohol and whether phone use played a role in how events unfolded. Until those findings are officially released, the circumstances of the crash remain part of the investigation rather than an established fact, so the claims about alcohol and phone use are reported strictly as suspicions from the investigation.
Based on what is known so far, the car carried Aleksinac license plates, suggesting it was registered in the area. It has not yet been disclosed whether anyone besides the driver was in the vehicle, nor whether other traffic participants were involved at the time of the crash.
The investigation into the exact cause of the crash near Aleksinac is ongoing. Based on the on-site findings, the autopsy results and any further forensic analysis, the prosecution will determine what exactly caused the car to run off the road and hit the tree, and whether the driver’s condition at the time played a role alongside the act of driving itself.
