Two drivers failed to yield to cyclists in one hour, and a woman fights for her life in Hrastnik

Around 10 a.m. on Saturday, a car driver and a woman on a bicycle met at a junction in Hrastnik. The driver was turning left and did not give way to her, so he hit her. The cyclist is seriously injured, and according to police her life is in danger. Dnevnik reports that her condition is critical and that she was rushed to hospital.

Officers of the Ljubljana Police Directorate are gathering information on suspicion of the criminal offence of causing a road accident through negligence. They will report their findings to the competent state prosecutor's office. Police did not say what the two are called or how old each of them is.

The case is being handled as causing a road accident through negligence. (translated)

Hrastnik was not the only place where a driver took a cyclist's right of way that day. Svet24 reports that an hour later a similar crash happened in Log pri Brezovici. There, a car driver also failed to yield at a junction, this time to a male cyclist. He suffered only minor injuries.

So twice in one hour, drivers made the same mistake at a junction. In Hrastnik, that mistake put the cyclist's life in danger, as according to Dnevnik the driver turning left overlooked her.