Loznica: Audi A3 Plunges Off 15-Meter Cliff, Driver Rescued
An Audi A3 went off the road near Tigar in Loznica and plunged about 15 meters down a cliff. The driver was trapped in a drainage channel until firefighters pulled him out through the window.
A passenger car, an Audi A3, went off the road in Loznica near the Tigar area and plunged down a cliff about 15 meters high. The vehicle got stuck in a drainage channel below the cliff, where, according to witnesses, it was left literally hanging. One person was inside, injured in the fall and trapped inside the car.
According to unofficial information, the crash happened during the night before Thursday, September 17, not in the morning hours as the first reports suggested. The earliest footage and details about the incident appeared on the Instagram accounts Jadar Press Loznica and Loznica Info on September 17, around 11:50 AM. Police and the fire service had not issued an official statement on the circumstances of the intervention by the time this article was published, so the driver’s age and gender, along with the exact cause of the crash, remain unknown.
Rescue operation with winch and ladder
Firefighters who responded to the scene first had to secure the car itself before they could reach the injured person. They ran a winch cable from the truck to keep the Audi from flipping over or sliding further down into the channel, while the injured driver was still trapped inside.
Only once the vehicle was secured did firefighters lay a ladder across the channel to safely reach the spot where the car was wedged. The terrain itself, the shape of the channel beneath the cliff, made access to the site harder.
Firefighters then pulled the injured driver out through the car window. Once out, they placed him on a stretcher and carried him to safety, clear of both the channel and the cliff the car had fallen from. There he was handed over to an emergency medical team, which took over his care.
What is still not known about the circumstances
It has not been disclosed whether the driver was alone in the car, or whether there was other traffic on the road when the Audi left it. There is also no information yet on whether a technical fault, loss of control, or some other factor caused the crash. The authorities in charge have not released an official statement with details of the intervention, the number of firefighters involved, or the exact time the accident was reported.
The newsroom will update this story if the Interior Ministry or the Fire and Rescue Unit issue an official statement on the intervention in Loznica. Until then, the only source of information about the incident remains posts from the scene on social media, which say the rescue went without further complications and that the injured driver was pulled out alive.
The cliff near Tigar in Loznica sits along a stretch where the road runs close to a steep slope above the channel, and that kind of terrain means a vehicle leaving the road there risks a fall from a significant height. Nothing in the posts so far shows whether similar incidents have happened at that spot before, or whether a guardrail or other protective barrier runs along the road there.
The fire intervention in Loznica ended without further injuries to the rescue team, based on what has been published so far. No information has been released about the injured driver’s condition or any further hospitalization.
Interventions like this one, where a car is left hanging over a drop or wedged in a channel bed after leaving the road, rank among the more technically demanding calls for fire crews, since any further movement of the vehicle has to be stopped before rescuers can even reach the injured person. Using a winch from the fire truck in such cases is a standard precaution, meant to stop the car from sliding deeper into the channel while rescuers are working right next to it.
