Resnik crash: truck and three cars collide, baby in one

A truck and three passenger cars collided near Resnik in Belgrade on Tuesday, October 6, at around 1 p.m. The crash happened at a roundabout, and a baby was in one of the vehicles. The sources available to the newsroom contain no official statement on the number of injured, so the severity of the injuries has not been confirmed either.

What is known about the Resnik crash?

Four vehicles were involved: one truck and three passenger cars. The first reports of the crash appeared in the early afternoon. Mondo says the make-up of the vehicles is being learned “unofficially”, while B92 writes that the accident happened for reasons that are still unknown.

Emergency services arrived at the scene. The circumstances of the collision will, according to reports, be established by an investigation. The cause is not yet known, so it is also unclear who broke the traffic rules, and how.

What do eyewitnesses say?

The only firsthand account comes from an eyewitness whose name has not been published. Kurir was the first to publish the statement, and B92 and Informer carry it. Mondo ran the same statement but does not name Kurir as its source. According to this account, the mother stayed conscious after the crash and carried the child out of the car herself.

The eyewitness told the media:

The scenes are horrifying. It all happened within a few seconds, and then chaos broke out. The cars are wrecked, people were getting out of the vehicles, and the most heartbreaking sight was a mother carrying a baby out of a car. Luckily, she was conscious and managed to pull the child out.

According to the same sources, witnesses also said one of the drivers was bloodied behind the wheel. The reports do not make clear whether this is one witness or several, because all three outlets published the same statement.

What has not been confirmed?

None of the reports reviewed says how many people were injured or what their injuries are. They also do not say what condition the baby and the mother are in, other than that the mother, per the eyewitness, stayed conscious. There is no information on the identity of the drivers or on whether anyone was taken to a medical facility.

Until the police publish the results of the on-site investigation or the ambulance service confirms how many people were treated, everything known about the consequences of the crash rests on the word of one eyewitness.