Car Burns to Shell on Milos Veliki Highway Near Ljig

A car was completely destroyed by fire last night on the Milos Veliki highway, on the stretch between Takovo and Ljig. According to both available reports from the scene, only the shell of the vehicle remained. The fire broke out overnight on September 15 into 16, in the late evening hours.

Telegraf published the news at 10:35 p.m., reporting that the car had been heading toward Belgrade at the time it caught fire. Informer published its report slightly later, at 10:53 p.m., eighteen minutes after Telegraf, but did not mention the direction the car had been traveling. The discrepancy between the two reports means the car’s route toward Belgrade has not been independently confirmed for now, since the second outlet neither confirms nor denies that detail. Neither report gives the exact kilometer marker where the vehicle caught fire, so for now the location can only be placed approximately, somewhere between Takovo and Ljig.

Three services were dispatched to the scene. Firefighters, police patrols and an ambulance crew arrived after the car had already started burning. Neither report specifies the order in which they arrived. Firefighters brought the blaze under control quickly, and the fire did not spread beyond the vehicle itself.

Whether anyone was injured remains an open question. Neither Telegraf nor Informer report any injuries, but neither outlet states how many people were in the car or whether the driver got out before the fire spread. According to both sources, no information on possible injuries is available at this time.

The cause of the fire has not been established. Neither Telegraf nor Informer report the make, model or year of the car that burned, nor the identity of its owner or driver. As of publication, the relevant authorities had not issued any official statement on the cause or on a possible on-site investigation. Whether the cause will be determined through an expert examination depends on whether the authorities open such a procedure, and neither source currently has information on that.

Footage from the scene was published by the Instagram account 192_rs, and those clips formed the basis of Informer’s report. According to that unofficial footage, the car can be seen completely burned out, while details about the course of the intervention itself are not shown. Neither report states that traffic on the stretch was halted for the firefighting operation or the removal of the burned vehicle, nor that the intervention caused traffic backups.

The stretch where the car caught fire lies in central Serbia, on the Milos Veliki highway between Takovo and Ljig, one of the busier routes toward Belgrade. It was precisely because of the heavy traffic on that stretch that other drivers quickly noticed and reported the nighttime fire on the moving vehicle, and footage from the scene appeared on Instagram the same evening the fire broke out.

The newsroom will publish additional details if the relevant authorities release them, including any confirmation of the number of people injured, the driver’s identity or the established cause of the fire. Until then, the available information remains limited to the two evening reports, from Telegraf and Informer, and to the footage posted on social media, which Informer cited as its source.