Child Dies in Crash on Ruma-Sabac Road Near Klenak
A child aged between two and three died of injuries at the Sabac emergency unit. The investigation near Klenak is under way, and the circumstances of the collision are not yet established.
A child aged between two and three died on Saturday, November 7, in a traffic accident on the Ruma-Sabac main road near the village of Klenak. The Sabac Health Center confirmed that the child succumbed to injuries in the emergency unit despite the doctors’ efforts. Two other injured people were taken to the hospital with the child.
What is known about the crash near Klenak?
According to Kurir, the crash happened at around noon. Telegraf first reported three injured people, including a child, at 1:44 PM, and confirmed the child’s death at 3:23 PM. All three were taken by ambulance to the emergency unit of the Sabac Health Center. Ambulance crews from Sabac and from Ruma were sent to the scene.
Sources differ on the child’s age. The Health Center confirmed that the child was between two and three years old, as reported by RTS and in the Telegraf text. The headline of the same Telegraf piece says three years, while Kurir writes that the child was about two. The exact age has not been given.
What did the collision look like?
Kurir describes the crash based on photos from the scene, published on the Instagram page “Jadarpressloznica”. Those images show a head-on collision of two cars. One vehicle was thrown off the road by the force of the impact, and the front ends of both cars were crushed.
That description comes from the media, not from a police statement. The available sources do not say who was driving the vehicles, how fast they were going, or what caused the collision. The circumstances will be established after the on-site investigation, which is still under way.
What is known about the injured?
Sources give differing accounts of the two other injured people. RTS and Telegraf say only that two more people were hurt, with no description of their condition and no word on how they relate to the child. Kurir, citing unofficial information, reports that the child’s mother is among the injured and that she has serious bodily injuries. No official source has confirmed this, so the mother’s condition is reported here as unofficial only.
Kurir also writes that the child died on arrival at the hospital, while the Health Center, according to RTS, says the child succumbed to injuries in the emergency unit. The difference in wording does not change the outcome, but it shows that details from the hospital are still being passed along second-hand.
Traffic on the Ruma-Sabac road
Traffic on that stretch of the main road was halted. Police diverted vehicles along an alternative route through the village of Klenak. At the time the sources were published, the on-site investigation was still in progress, and further findings on the cause of the crash are yet to come from the authorities.
