Cacak: Boy, 9, Injured on Bike Near Lukoil Station
A boy born in 2017 was admitted to Cacak General Hospital and kept for observation in pediatric surgery. The circumstances of the accident are not yet known.
A nine-year-old boy was injured on Saturday evening, October 24, in a traffic accident in Cacak, near the Lukoil gas station. He was riding a bicycle at the time. After an examination at Cacak General Hospital, he was kept for observation in the pediatric surgery department. The exact circumstances of the accident are not yet known, and the police have not released a statement.
What Cacak General Hospital has confirmed
According to initial reports, the injured child is a boy born in 2017. After the accident he was rushed to the hospital in Cacak, where he received medical care. His admission was confirmed by the hospital spokeswoman, Marija Stranjanac, in a statement to the RINA agency:
A boy born in 2017, injured as a cyclist, was admitted to the Emergency Department of Cacak General Hospital. After diagnostic tests, he was admitted for observation to the Pediatric Surgery Department.
Two things follow from that statement: the child was injured as a cyclist, and after diagnostics he stayed in pediatric surgery. The hospital did not say what injuries the boy suffered or how he is feeling. Blic reports in its story that the extent of his injuries is not yet known.
Was the boy hit by a car?
That has not been confirmed. Telegraf published its report on the accident at 8:32 p.m. and said in the headline that a car had hit the boy. The body of that report does not mention a vehicle, and neither do the reports by RINA and Blic. All of them speak only of a traffic accident and of a boy injured as a road user while riding a bicycle.
The hospital does not mention a vehicle in its statement either. Until the police say what happened, the only certain fact is that a boy on a bicycle was injured in the accident.
What is still unknown about the accident
The circumstances under which the accident happened are not yet known. The following have not been released:
- the exact time of the accident and the street where it happened, other than that it was near the Lukoil station
- whether another vehicle was involved, its make and the driver’s details
- the type and severity of the boy’s injuries
- a police statement on the incident
Until that information arrives, the only verified lead is the hospital’s statement. According to it, the boy was treated in the Emergency Department and then kept for observation, which means he is under the supervision of doctors in pediatric surgery.
