A motorcyclist died in a serious traffic accident in Batajnica after a collision with a car. The footage shows that both vehicles ran a red light. Experts warn: motorcyclists are getting injured more and more often
On Sunday (July 27), at Batajnica there was a serious accident traffic accidents in which the motorcyclist died. The accident happened at the intersection, due to a collision motorcycle i passenger car.
The terrifying video is being shared on social networks. According to eyewitnesses and security camera footage, both vehicles ran a red light before the collision.
In one of the videos, a car can be seen running on a red light, passing the central part of the intersection while a motorcycle coming from the left at high speed rams into it.
The second video, from the part of the intersection where the motorcyclist is coming from, shows that the traffic light is also red as he passes at high speed.
Dr. Vladimir Jevtić, an expert in traffic safety, tells "Vreme" that the expert examination will show what it is about, but that it is obvious from the videos that both drivers made mistakes.
"It is definite that the vehicle entered the intersection within a second of the red light. It is definite that the motorcycle also passed the red light. It is also obvious that the speed of the motorcycle driver was lacking", says Jevtić and adds that the consequences would have been less if the speed of the motorcyclist had been correct.
"There would be a high probability that the motorcyclist would survive," says Jevtić.
The intersection, along with the bend, is the most common place where motorcyclists are killed, explained the interlocutor of "Vremena".
One fatality on a two-wheeler per week
According to data published on the website of the Agency for Traffic Safety, on average, one two-wheeler is killed every six days and more than four two-wheeler drivers are injured every day.
During the year 2024, 65 drivers of motorized two-wheelers - 13 mopeds and 52 motorcycle drivers - died on the roads in Serbia, Mirko Koković, assistant director of the Serbian Traffic Safety Agency, told Tanjug earlier.
"Their participation in the total number of traffic fatalities is 13 percent, which is an extremely large number, especially when we take into account their number in our country," said Kokanović.
As he added, on average, around 47 drivers of motorized two-wheelers die in Serbia every year, of which 39 are motorcyclists and eight are moped riders.
How do motorcyclists and moped riders die most often?
According to the data of the Traffic Safety Agency, based on the analysis of accidents from 2022 to 2024, motorcycles have more than three times the risk of participating in traffic accidents with fatalities than mopeds.
Motorcyclists die the most in traffic accidents with at least two vehicles - turning or passing, and moped riders in traffic accidents with at least two vehicles - without turning, i.e. during overtaking.
Moped riders are most often killed due to speed not adjusted to traffic conditions and road conditions and driving under the influence of alcohol, and motorcyclists due to speed not adjusted to traffic conditions and road conditions and failure to yield the right of way defined by an official's sign, traffic signs or traffic rules.
Every fourth (29 percent) moped rider dies alone, i.e. without the participation of other vehicles when it independently causes a traffic accident.
In traffic accidents with fatalities, motorcyclists mostly participate in traffic accidents with passenger cars (about 45 percent) and independently (32 percent).
Almost every third (32 percent) of the motorcyclists killed is over 65 years old and every third (28 percent) of the motorcyclists killed is between 15 and 30 years old.
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Two-wheeler drivers - a vulnerable category
Motorcycle and motorcycle drivers bear the epithet of a vulnerable and endangered category of road users, explains Dr. Jevtić.
"The problem with motorcycles is that it is not speed that kills, but slowing down. There are two types of falls from a motorcycle - that the motorcyclist falls and slides, so there is no immediate stop and we have this, unfortunately, variant, when there is an immediate stop - then the chances of the protective equipment doing its job are very small if there is no airbag for the motorcyclist, i.e. an air vest. Unfortunately, that is when the consequences like what happened here occur," explains Jevtić.
Responsibility in accidents involving four-wheelers and two-wheelers is usually 50-50 percent, says the interlocutor of "Vremena", but motorcyclists more often get the "fatter end".
"When falling at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour to zero, the motorcyclist has 20 gravities on him. This means that his mass is many times greater. If, for example, he weighs 100 kilograms, he weighs two tons at the time of the fall. If the weight of his heart is 300 grams, it weighs six kilograms at the time of the fall. This is when the internal organs rupture and, unfortunately, usually leads to immediate death," explains Jevtić.
What do the statistics say?
According to the data of the Republic Institute of Statistics, in the first quarter of 2025, which is the latest available data, there were about 5.500 traffic accidents - 2.729 with injured participants, 93 with fatalities and 2.636 accidents in which there were injuries.
In the first quarter of 2025, 103 people died in traffic accidents - 60 drivers, 21 passengers and 22 pedestrians, according to RA.
There is no data on how many accidents involved motorcyclists and how many died. "Vreme" sent questions to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Agency for Traffic Safety, but the answers did not reach the publication of this text.
What went wrong?
According to Dr. Jevtić, lately there has been a lack of attention among drivers.
"It's unbelievable how much people are possessed by various distractions. A dangerous situation happens in a moment, and when they come back to reality, there is usually little space and time to avoid a dangerous situation. We also have a lot of increased aggression in traffic. After the covid pandemic, it has increased drastically. Fights in traffic are more and more numerous. Arguments," says the "Vremena" interviewee.
As he adds, "traffic is a mirror of society and shows a picture of where we are".
"We can talk until tomorrow about statistics and who is to blame. We are too small a country to have more than 500 traffic fatalities in a year, which was the case last year."
As he explains, prevention has completely failed.
"The traffic safety agency has completely gone beyond the scope of prevention. The agency deals with distributing flyers to people not to drink. Even a child knows that it has no effect. The traffic safety strategy is rewritten from year to year. It is an umbrella document. They did not introduce traffic safety education in schools, which is the most necessary. Expertise in all this has also been lost. It is a completely closed system that deals with campaigns. It is as if you treat cancer with mint tea," concludes Jevtić.
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