Bubanj Potok crash: bus hits truck, seven injured
A bus and a truck collided this morning on the Belgrade-Nis highway near Bubanj Potok. One woman is badly hurt, and reports differ on whether traffic was halted.
A bus and a truck collided on the Belgrade-Nis highway near Bubanj Potok this morning, leaving seven people injured. The crash happened at about 7:15 a.m., and the Emergency Medical Service classified one woman’s injuries as severe trauma.
What is known about the injured?
Several Emergency Medical Service teams went to the scene. According to what the service confirmed to the media, one woman’s injuries were classed as severe trauma, while the others were hurt less seriously. All of the injured were taken to the Emergency Center in Belgrade.
Sources give no ages for any of the injured. They also do not say how many people were on the bus and how many in the truck, or whether any of them remained in hospital.
What did the collision look like?
One eyewitness told the RINA news agency:
“The bus most likely rammed into the truck’s trailer, its windshield is completely smashed. We don’t know if anyone is hurt.”
That description comes from a witness, not from the police. Police carried out an on-site investigation, and the cause of the crash will be known only once the inquiry is finished. Until then, no one has been held responsible.
The SNM portal reports that the bus belongs to GSP, the Belgrade city transport company. Other sources mention neither the operator nor the route, so that detail cannot yet be treated as confirmed.
Was traffic halted?
Reports differ here. Tanjug, whose report was carried by 24sedam.rs, says traffic on that stretch of road was not stopped and kept flowing without interruption. Telegraf and sd.rs write the same, but do not name the agency.
Other outlets describe a different picture. Kurir writes that traffic on the section was slow and the delays long, the SNM portal speaks of long queues heading toward Belgrade, and Informer of a standstill that lasted for hours. No source says when the flow of vehicles returned to normal.
What is still unknown?
Several questions were still open at the time of publication:
- why the crash happened and who was driving the vehicles,
- how many passengers were on the bus and which route it was running,
- how many of the injured were on the bus and how many in the truck,
- the condition of the woman with severe trauma.
