Sad news: 3-year-old who was seriously injured in car-train crash near Smederevo passes away
The child arrived at the hospital without showing any signs of life, resuscitation was attempted, but without success
A child (3) was killed on Tuesday night when a freight train collided with a passenger car at a level crossing between Osipaonica and Lugavcina, near Smederevo.
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As Novosti has unofficially learned, the three-year-old boy was transported by ambulance to the Smederevo hospital with serious injuries.
"The child arrived at the hospital without showing many signs of life, resuscitation was attempted, but without success. An elderly man has been transferred to the Emergency Center in Belgrade during the night with serious, multiple life-threatening injuries," Sveti Luka hospital in Smederevo announced.
The accident happened at a level crossing that had vertical road signals. Members of the Ministry of the Interior and a joint railway commission for investigation of emergency events went to the scene, and they will determine the details of the accident.
How the crash happened will be known after the investigation, which continues today, has been completed.
(Telegraf.rs)