Cacak Bypass Crash Injures One-Month-Old Baby
Two cars collided on the Cacak bypass, one of them with foreign plates. A baby girl one month old was taken to Belgrade, and sources disagree on the cause.
Two passenger cars collided on Saturday night, October 31, on the bypass around Cacak. The most seriously injured is a baby girl one month old, who was taken to the Clinical Center in Belgrade with a head injury. Her mother, father and one-year-old brother suffered minor injuries and were released for treatment at home.
Where and when did the crash happen?
The crash happened at around 10:55 p.m. on the bypass, past the turn for Guca, heading toward Sloboda, the portal RINA reports. The two cars were coming from opposite directions, and one of them had foreign registration.
According to eyewitnesses cited by RINA, the car with foreign plates ended up under a truck trailer after the impact, then hit a wheel and spun around on the roadway. One of the witnesses described the scene on the road to that portal:
The scene was horrific, vehicle parts were scattered across the road. According to the first information, five people were injured.
Emergency medical crews and police went to the scene, and police carried out an on-site investigation. Traffic on that stretch of the bypass was slowed during the response.
What is known about the injured?
The first reports spoke of five injured. Cacak General Hospital later confirmed to RINA how many people had been admitted:
In the crash that happened last night on the ring road, four people were admitted. A one-month-old girl with a head injury was transported to the Belgrade Clinical Center. The mother, father and one-year-old son, with minor bodily injuries recorded, were released for home treatment.
The emergency medical service took the family to the hospital in Cacak. The baby was first admitted to the emergency department and transferred to Belgrade from there. Telegraf and Blic also report four people treated, and both write that they were all members of the same family.
The sources do not say whether the driver of the car with foreign plates was injured. They also do not mention any criminal complaint being filed against anyone, or anyone being detained.
Why do the sources disagree on the cause?
The circumstances of the collision have not been established, and two sources describe them differently. According to the eyewitnesses RINA spoke to, the driver of the car with foreign plates was overtaking a line of vehicles and hit a vehicle coming from the opposite direction.
Telegraf, citing first information from the scene, writes that the driver ran a red light and collided head-on with the car carrying the family. Neither description comes from the police, and the sources available to us contain no statement from the authorities on the cause of the crash.
Telegraf reports that further investigation will establish all the circumstances that led to the crash. Until then, it remains open who broke which traffic rule, and at what point and on what part of the road.
