A driver rammed his car into a crowd and seriously injured a young woman Thursday at one of the student-led protests that have been held daily throughout Serbia over the November collapse of a railway station canopy in the country’s north that killed 15 people.
The driver fled the scene in downtown Belgrade after the young woman was thrown onto his car roof and then to the ground with bleeding head injuries. N1 television said she was seriously wounded and was taken to a hospital in a conscious state. State RTS television said she was in stable condition.
Police said they detained the driver and that he was being charged with attempted murder. Several such incidents have been reported during the protests since the blockades started, but this was the first case to result in a serious injury.
