Woman, 31, Dies in Crash on Subotica-Bajmok Road
A car went off the Subotica-Bajmok main road and slammed into a truck that was entering traffic from a side road. The 31-year-old driver died at the scene, and traffic was disrupted.
A 31-year-old woman died this morning, September 23, in a car accident on the Subotica-Bajmok main road. According to the Subotica Police Department, cited by Kurir, SD and Mondo, the crash happened around 6:40 a.m., between the villages of Mala Bosna and Misicevo. Telegraf reports a different time, around 6:30 a.m., and a different location, near Donji Tavankut. The outlets 24sedam and suboticke.rs describe the location as the turnoff for Tavankut, on the same stretch of the main road.
According to the Police Department, the driver of a passenger car with Subotica license plates was overtaking a bus. During the maneuver she lost control of the vehicle, went off the road, and collided with a truck that was entering traffic from a side road at that moment.
Telegraf, citing the on site investigation, describes a somewhat different sequence of events. According to that outlet, a Fiat Punto veered off to the left at high speed and flipped over, then slammed front first and roof first into the truck’s front right side. The truck, Telegraf reports, was driven by fifty-year-old P. S. The truck was entering the main road at that moment from the yard of a local farmstead.
Telegraf also names the woman who died, thirty-one-year-old L. P. G., and cites information from the investigation that she was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash. Other outlets do not identify her.
The driver died of her injuries at the scene. The car, according to Kurir’s source, was almost completely crushed by the force of the impact and ended up practically underneath the truck, with parts of the vehicle scattered across the road.
The scenes are truly horrifying. Firefighters and an ambulance crew are on site, while the car is still lying almost underneath the truck and is completely destroyed. The vehicle was severely deformed by the force of the impact, and the scene itself speaks to how violent the collision was.
An eyewitness at the scene gave the statement to the media.
Ambulance crews and firefighter rescuers went to the scene immediately and responded after the crash. Police carried out an on scene investigation, and traffic on the stretch was disrupted this morning.
The circumstances of the crash are still being determined by the authorities. Telegraf reports that the investigation has yet to establish the exact cause of the loss of control, while the Subotica Police Department, according to Kurir, Mondo and SD, gives the overtaking of the bus as its version of events.
