A law student was hit by a car during a protest at an intersection in Belgrade, reports BGNES.
She was seriously injured and her life is in danger, the emergency centre there said.
Police have identified the driver, M. P. (38), who is suspected of hitting the 20-year-old girl with a Ford Focus station wagon and then fleeing. It is alleged that there were two other people in the vehicle.
Disturbing footage captured by eyewitnesses shows the driver swerving onto the pavement and hitting the student, who was thrown to the roof of the car by the force of the impact. The driver continued driving with the girl on the roof, who then slipped and fell to the roadway.
An ambulance team arrived at the scene and transported the girl to the Emergency Center.
Within an hour, students from the Faculty of Law, joined by colleagues from other Belgrade faculties, blocked traffic on King Alexander Avenue today and called on citizens to join them in condemning the violence, reacting to another similar incident in which a woman was seriously injured a short time earlier.
BGNES recalls that today around noon citizens and students from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Law, Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Construction and Technology and Metallurgy blocked for 15 minutes the intersection of Roosevelt and Queen Mary streets to pay tribute to the victims of the collapse of the train station in Novi Sad.
"A student was hit by a car and seriously injured! The driver crashed into a crowd of students on the sidewalk and hit the girl. We are waiting for an ambulance and the student is lying on the roadway bleeding," says Serbian reporter Marko Dragoslavic from the scene of the accident. | BGNES
