# Pink's Nina Kovačević hit a girl in Voždovac

Category: Above the law  
Period: from 26 Jun 2024  
Outcome: Indictment filed (as of 19 Jan 2026)  

On 26 June 2024, Pink TV editor Nina Kovačević struck a fifteen-year-old girl with her car on a pedestrian crossing in Voždovac. According to the injured girl's lawyer, she will be left with permanent consequences, and sources put Kovačević's blood alcohol level at between 1.02 and 1.70 per mille. She already had 11 misdemeanour convictions, and according to CINS, the police failed in 2023 to report her for driving while banned, which, according to legal experts, allowed her to avoid losing her licence. In January 2026, the Court of Appeal overturned her first-instance sentence of two years and ten months in prison and ordered a retrial.

## The girl on the pedestrian crossing

Late in the evening of 26 June 2024, Pink TV producer and editor Nina Kovačević struck a fifteen-year-old girl with her car on a marked pedestrian crossing on Vojvode Stepe Street in Voždovac. The girl was taken to the Military Medical Academy (VMA) with serious bodily injuries and spent a week in intensive care. According to the injured girl's lawyer, she is recovering after a series of operations but will be left with permanent consequences.

The sources give differing alcohol levels: the Interior Ministry said a breathalyser test measured 1.02 per mille, the prosecution cited 1.51 per mille in her blood, and according to CINS, the indictment and the reasoning of the verdict state 1.70 per mille.

## Driving while banned, with no report filed

According to the prosecution, 33 requests for misdemeanour proceedings had previously been filed against Kovačević, resulting in 11 convictions by the Misdemeanour Court in Belgrade. CINS revealed that in August 2023 she drove while a driving ban was in force and that police filed no report over it, which, according to lawyers, allowed her to avoid losing her licence. A report on a second breach of the ban, from March 2024, reached the court only after the crash.

The Interior Ministry's Internal Control Sector first denied this, then opened proceedings and submitted a report to the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, which opened a case in October 2025. The outcome of that case has not been made public.

## Charges and an overturned verdict

In August 2024, the Second Basic Public Prosecutor's Office filed an indictment against Kovačević for an aggravated offence against public traffic safety. After two months in custody, the Higher Court placed her under house arrest and temporarily suspended her driving licence.

On 4 June 2025, the Second Basic Court convicted her at first instance and sentenced her to two years and ten months in prison and a five-year driving ban, but in January 2026 the Court of Appeal in Belgrade overturned the verdict for insufficient reasoning and ordered a retrial. No outcome of the retrial had been found as of October 2026.

## Participants

- [Nina Kovačević](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/nina-kovacevic): With more than one per mille of alcohol in her blood, she seriously injured a girl on a pedestrian crossing in Voždovac; according to the prosecution's expert witness, she was speeding (responsible)
- [Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/mup-srbije): Police notified her of the driving ban a year late, and when they stopped her in 2023 they did not file a charge (responsible)
- [Misdemeanour Court in Belgrade](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/prekrsajni-sud-beograd): For camera-recorded offences he fined her between 10,000 and 25,000 dinars instead of the prescribed 100,000, and four of the fines lapsed under the statute of limitations (responsible)
- [Second Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/drugo-ojt-beograd): It filed an indictment for an aggravated offence against public traffic safety, citing 1.51 per mille (investigation and courts)
- [Second Basic Court in Belgrade](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/drugi-osnovni-sud-beograd): He ordered her detention and, at first instance, sentenced her to two years and ten months, but the Court of Appeal overturned the verdict (investigation and courts)
- [Higher Court in Belgrade](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/visi-sud-beograd): It replaced detention with house arrest and temporarily took away her driving licence (investigation and courts)
- [Court of Appeal in Belgrade](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/apelacioni-sud-beograd): It overturned the first-instance verdict because it did not explain why the prosecution expert's findings were accepted (investigation and courts)
- [Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade, Special Department for Combating Corruption](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/vjt-beograd): It opened a case on possible failings by the traffic police and is looking into the claims (investigation and courts)
- [CINS (Centre for Investigative Journalism of Serbia)](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/cins): It reported that police did not file a charge for driving while banned and that internal control at first denied this (oversight and the public)
- [Marinika Tepić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/marinika-tepic): She was the first to publicly name the driver and wrote that she had been drunk (oversight and the public)
- [Green-Left Front](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/zeleno-levi-front): He called on citizens to protest outside TV Pink after the accident (oversight and the public)
- [TV Pink](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/tv-pink): At the time of the crash the driver had been employed at the station for thirteen years; no public response from the station was found (commented on the case)

## Sources

- [Vreme: Interior Ministry: N. K. arrested on suspicion of running over a girl at a pedestrian crossing with alcohol in her blood](<https://vreme.com/drustvo/mup-uhapsena-n-k-pod-sumnjom-da-je-sa-102-promila-alkohola-na-pesackom-prelazu-pregazila-devojcicu/>): 27 Jun 2024
- [Nova.rs: TV Pink producer indicted over the Voždovac crash, faces up to eight years in prison](<https://nova.rs/vesti/hronika/podignuta-optuznica-protiv-producentkinje-pinka-za-nesrecu/>): 10 Sep 2024
- [Vreme: TV Pink producer Nina Kovačević, who hit a girl with her car on a pedestrian crossing, remanded in custody](<https://vreme.com/vesti/pritvor-do-30-dana-producentkinji-tv-pink-koja-je-kolima-udarila-devojcicu-na-pesackom/>): 28 Jun 2024
- [CINS (Centar za istraživačko novinarstvo Srbije): Retrial in the Pink producer case](<https://www.cins.rs/ponavlja-se-sudjenje-u-slucaju-producentkinje-pinka/>): 19 Jan 2026
- [Informer: Belgrade woman who knocked down a girl remanded in custody: she faces up to eight years in prison](<https://informer.rs/hronika/vesti/920187/udes-oborena-devojcica-saobracajna-nesreca>): 28 Jun 2024
- [Vreme: Girl hit by a car at a pedestrian crossing in Voždovac out of danger](<https://vreme.com/vesti/devojcica-udarena-kolima-na-pesackom-prelazu-na-vozdovcu-van-zivotne-opasnosti/>): 4 Jul 2024
- [CINS (Centar za istraživačko novinarstvo Srbije): The Pink producer case: years of speeding that led to the crash](<https://www.cins.rs/slucaj-producentkinje-pinka-godine-brze-voznje-koje-su-vodile-do-nesrece/>): 23 Jun 2025
- [Vreme: Arrogant Pink producer who seriously injured a girl has her driving licence taken away](<https://vreme.com/vesti/bahatoj-producentkinji-pinka-koja-je-tesko-povredila-devojcicu-oduzeta-vozacka-dozvola/>): 2 Oct 2024
- [Nova.rs: Higher Court replaces TV Pink producer's detention with the lighter measure of house arrest](<https://nova.rs/vesti/hronika/visi-sud-producentkinji-tv-pink-pritvor-zamenio-blazom-merom-kucnog-pritvora/>): 30 Sep 2024
- [CINS (Centar za istraživačko novinarstvo Srbije): How the Pink producer avoided losing her licence before the crash](<https://www.cins.rs/kako-je-producentkinja-pinka-izbegla-oduzimanje-dozvole-pre-nesrece/>): 10 Oct 2024
- [Nova.rs: CINS reveals: how the Pink producer avoided losing her licence before the crash](<https://nova.rs/vesti/hronika/kako-je-nina-kovacevic-izbegla-oduzimanje-dozvole-pre-nesrece/>): 10 Oct 2024
- [Danas: CINS: how the Pink producer avoided losing her licence before the crash](<https://www.danas.rs/vesti/drustvo/cins-oduzimenje-dozvole-producentkinja-pinka/>): 10 Oct 2024
- [Vreme: Prosecutors investigate possible police failings in the Nina Kovačević case](<https://vreme.com/drustvo/tuzilastvo-istrazuje-eventualne-propuste-policije-u-slucaju-nine-kovacevic/>): 21 Oct 2025
- [N1: Higher Prosecutor's Office opens case: why traffic police did not take away TV Pink producer's driving licence](<https://n1info.rs/vesti/vjt-formiralo-predmet-saobracajna-policija-nije-oduzela-dozvolu-nini-kovacevic/>): 21 Oct 2025
- [N1: CINS: The Pink producer case - alcohol, black silhouettes and a Hungarian licence](<https://n1info.rs/vesti/cins-slucaj-producentkinje-pinka-alkohol-crne-siluete-i-madjarska-dozvola/>): 16 Jan 2025
- [N1: Pink producer sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison for hitting a girl with her car](<https://n1info.rs/vesti/producentkinja-pinka-osudjena-na-dve-godine-i-10-meseci-zbog-udaranja-devojcice-kolima/>): 4 Jun 2025
- [Vreme: TV Pink producer sentenced at first instance to two years and ten months in prison](<https://vreme.com/vesti/producentkinja-tv-pink-prvostepeno-osudjena-na-dve-godine-i-deset-meseci-zabtvora/>): 4 Jun 2025
- [Vreme: Court of Appeal: Verdict against Pink producer Nina Kovačević overturned](<https://vreme.com/drustvo/apelacioni-sud-ukinuta-presuda-producentkinji-pinka-nini-kovacevic/>): 19 Jan 2026
- [Danas: First-instance verdict handed down against Pink producer over traffic crash](<https://www.danas.rs/vesti/drustvo/izrecena-prvostepena-presuda-producentkinji-pinka-zbog-saobracajne-nesrece/>): 4 Jun 2025
- [Nova.rs: "You won't run us over": Protest outside Pink over girl hit by the station's producer](<https://nova.rs/vesti/hronika/necete-nas-gaziti-protest-ispred-pinka-zbog-devojcice-koju-je-kolima-udarila-producentkinja-te-televizije/>): 27 Jun 2024
- [Vreme: Parents of children killed in traffic: selective justice and lenient sentences for the guilty](<https://vreme.com/vesti/roditelji-dece-nastradale-u-saobracaju-selektivna-pravda-i-blage-kazne-za-krivce/>): 28 Jun 2024
- [Vreme: Who is Nina Kovačević from Pink, who hit a girl at a pedestrian crossing?](<https://vreme.com/vesti/ko-je-nina-kovacevic-sa-pinka-koja-je-udarila-devojcicu-na-pesackom-prelazu/>): 27 Jun 2024
- [Nova.rs: Questioning begins of TV Pink producer who hit a girl in Voždovac](<https://nova.rs/vesti/hronika/pocelo-saslusanje-producentkinje-sa-tv-pink-koja-je-udarila-devojcicu-na-vozdovcu/>): 28 Jun 2024

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Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/nina-kovacevic-vozdovac  
As of: 4 Nov 2026  
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