Man Found Unconscious Under Belgrade's Brankov Bridge
Belgrade's ambulance service took him to the Urgent Care Center, and doctors report a broken lower leg. News agencies give different intervention counts for the same night.
A Belgrade ambulance crew found a man unconscious, with visible serious injuries, under Brankov Bridge. He was taken to the Urgent Care Center for further treatment, the city’s ambulance service told Tanjug. The man’s age and identity have not been released.
What did the doctors find?
Doctors found a broken lower leg. They assume the man fell from a low height. The ambulance service did not say how he ended up under the bridge, or what his condition was after he was admitted to the Urgent Care Center.
According to Beta, which also cites the Belgrade ambulance service, the man suffered the serious injury in a fall from a low height near Brankov Bridge overnight.
When exactly was he found?
The two reports do not agree on the timing. Tanjug’s version says the crew found the man this morning. Beta writes that the injury happened overnight. Neither agency gives an exact hour, so the published reports do not show how long the man lay under the bridge before the crew arrived.
The reports came out on the morning of October 17: Telegraf ran Tanjug’s report at 7:29 a.m., and Nova.rs ran Beta’s at 8:21 a.m. Novosti carried the same information with figures that match Tanjug’s.
What else was in the overnight report?
The same report notes that at 7:20 p.m. a 15-year-old was injured as a pedestrian in a traffic accident. He was taken to the Tirsova University Children’s Hospital. The location of the accident was not given, and the boy’s condition was not released. The report does not say whether anyone else was involved in the accident.
Beta adds that the ambulance service responded to three traffic accidents overnight, in which two people were lightly injured. The agencies do not say whether the 15-year-old is one of those two.
How many interventions were there?
This is where the figures diverge:
- Tanjug says crews carried out 111 interventions overnight
- Beta says the ambulance service intervened 115 times
- both agencies record 23 interventions in public places
The gap of four interventions is not explained in either report, so both numbers are given here, each with the name of the agency that published it. By Tanjug’s count, about 21 percent of calls were in public places (23 of 111), and by Beta’s count 20 percent (23 of 115).
On the reasons for the calls, the reports complement each other. Tanjug says help was most often sought by people with hypertension and cancer patients. Beta writes that the ambulance service mostly responded to chronic health problems.
What do the reports leave out?
None of the three texts gives the age or identity of the man under the bridge, says whether he was conscious after admission to the Urgent Care Center, or mentions whether anyone besides the ambulance service was notified of the case. For that reason, everything stated here is limited to what doctors told the agencies: he was found unconscious, he was injured with a broken lower leg, and he was taken for further treatment.
