Simanovci Crash Kills Teen, 18, Driver Rushed to Belgrade

A serious, fatal traffic accident happened in Simanovci on Thursday, August 27, around 8 a.m. Two vehicles collided head on. One person died at the scene, while the other was rushed to Belgrade with severe injuries.

The direct collision between the two cars happened under circumstances that remain unclear for now. One vehicle was left crushed beyond recognition by the force of the impact. The other flipped onto its roof. Pieces of plastic, glass and metal were scattered across the road for dozens of meters, a sign of how hard the two cars hit each other.

Sources disagree on the identity and age of the person who died. Telegraf reports that the victim was an 18 year old man. Ozon, citing the first information available, says only that the deceased is a man whose identity has not yet been officially released. The ambulance crew that arrived at the scene could, according to every source, only confirm the death.

The other person involved in the crash suffered life threatening injuries. He was rushed to the Emergency Center in Belgrade, where doctors are treating him. There is no official word yet on his condition or whether he is out of danger.

What is known about the cause

Police patrols reached the scene as soon as the crash was reported and secured the area. Traffic on that stretch of road was suspended and rerouted while the on site investigation was underway. A forensic examination is also in progress to establish the exact cause of the crash, the speed at which the vehicles were traveling and the sequence of events right before impact.

The Interior Ministry (MUP) has not yet issued an official statement with details on the cause of the crash. The first report on the accident came from the Instagram account 192_rs, before other outlets picked it up. Until the forensic examination is complete, the cause of the crash remains unknown, and authorities have not said whether any proceedings are underway against either driver.

Accidents like this are typically examined in a pre-criminal procedure, under the supervision of the competent prosecutor’s office, which decides based on the traffic expert’s findings whether there are grounds for criminal charges against either driver. Until it is established who was driving each vehicle, and at what speed, immediately before impact, no party can be said to be at fault.

Another crash the same morning

The same morning was also marked by a second fatal traffic accident, near Kljajicevo close to Sombor. There, a heavy truck, under circumstances that are still unclear, drove into a marked construction zone on a stretch of road already known as a dangerous spot. Two workers engaged in reconstructing the roadway, aged 36 and 62, were killed.

This was a single crash with two victims, not two separate accidents, as some of the first reports may have suggested. The stretch of road near Kljajicevo remained closed off, and traffic was rerouted onto local alternatives while officers from the Interior Ministry and the competent prosecutor’s office worked to establish the circumstances of that crash.

Two accidents within a few hours of each other, one near Simanovci in Srem and the other near Sombor in the north of the country, claimed three lives in total that same morning. Both cases are still under investigation and forensic examination, and final reports on the causes of both accidents have not yet been released.