# Doljevac case: crash of Zoran Babić's official car

Category: Victims of negligence  
Period: from 31 Jan 2019  
Outcome: Guilty verdict (as of 23 Jan 2024)  

On 31 January 2019, an official car carrying Zoran Babić, acting director of Corridors of Serbia and an SNS official, crashed at 93 km/h into a car at the Doljevac toll plaza, killing Stanika Gligorijević. The family suspects Babić was driving; he says he was asleep in the back seat. The toll plaza footage reached the prosecutors missing two key minutes, which the prosecution later denied. Only the driver, Dejan Stanojević, has been convicted with final effect. No one has been held accountable for the footage, and after the 2026 elections the Student List called on prosecutors to take action again.

## Crash at the Doljevac toll plaza

On the morning of 31 January 2019, an official Škoda Superb carrying Zoran Babić, acting director of the public company Corridors of Serbia and an SNS official, crashed at 93 km/h into a car waiting at the Doljevac toll plaza. Stanika Gligorijević (52) was killed and five people were injured, Babić among them.

The next day Babić submitted an irrevocable resignation, but he stayed in office until November 2020, when the Government dismissed him at his own request.

## Who was driving, and the footage missing two minutes

From the start, part of the public, the victim's family and their lawyer suspected that Babić himself was driving; Babić said he had been asleep in the back seat.

The suspicion grew when the toll plaza footage reached the prosecutors in late 2019 missing two key minutes, from 8.30 to 8.32. The prosecution confirmed to Insajder that this part was missing, then stated that the footage had no missing parts, while the traffic police maintained that the footage shows Babić could not have been driving.

## Vučić and the footage

In 2019, President Aleksandar Vučić said he had seen the footage and that Babić was not driving. In 2021 he said he did not have the footage. The family's lawyer asked the prosecution to prosecute Vučić for withholding the footage. That did not happen.

## Driver convicted, time runs out on the footage

Only the driver, Dejan Stanojević, was held accountable for the crash: in 2021 he was convicted with final effect and sentenced to four years and six months in prison, and in 2023 the Supreme Court of Cassation rejected the defence's request. According to the court, expert witnesses established that Babić was not driving. Babić was not charged.

No one has been held accountable for the missing part of the footage: according to the family's lawyers, the statute of limitations for prosecution expired on 31 January 2024, and the prosecution says it has no document confirming that two minutes are missing. In 2025 Babić told Informer that the two minutes do not exist because the cameras record only when they detect motion, a claim the family's lawyer disputes.

## The victim's family

Stanika's sister Mirjana Aleksić was seriously injured and still lives with the consequences. Her husband Srđan, who was driving, paid 11,500 dinars to have the car moved.

Stanika's sons have been asking to see the footage for years. When the Interior Ministry offered in 2023 to let them view it without a lawyer present, they refused. Her son Milutin moved abroad because, as he puts it, the family could no longer cope financially.

## The Student List's request

After the parliamentary elections of 25 October 2026, the Student List asked the competent prosecutors' offices on 29 October to take action again in several cases, including the Doljevac toll plaza case.

## Participants

- [Zoran Babić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/zoran-babic): According to the victim's family, he was driving the official Škoda that hit a car at the toll plaza; the court's expert witnesses state that his injuries show he was not driving (responsible)
- [Dejan Stanojević](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/dejan-stanojevic): Driving at 93 km/h where the limit was 60, he caused a crash at the Doljevac toll plaza; he was convicted in a final ruling and sentenced to four and a half years (responsible)
- [Aleksandar Vučić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/aleksandar-vucic): According to the family's lawyer, he withheld from the court footage that, by his own account, he had watched; he never gave it to the family and later said he did not have it (responsible)
- [Nebojša Stefanović](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/nebojsa-stefanovic): The day after the crash he said Babić bore no personal responsibility because he had not been driving, and later that no part of the footage was missing (commented on the case)
- [Bratislav Gašić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/bratislav-gasic): He told Parliament that anyone could view the recordings; his office invited the sons of the woman who was killed to see them without their lawyer (commented on the case)
- [PE Corridors of Serbia](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/koridori-srbije): Its director was riding in the Škoda that hit a car at the toll plaza; according to the prosecution, the vehicle belonged to the company Trace (commented on the case)
- [Government of the Republic of Serbia](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/vlada-srbije): For ten months it did not formally register Babić's resignation, and in November 2020 it dismissed him "at his own request" (commented on the case)
- [PE “Roads of Serbia”](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/putevi-srbije): It did not give the court the full footage of the crash, and it handed the prosecution footage missing the crucial two minutes, from 8.30 to 8.32 (responsible)
- [Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Niš](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/ojt-nis): It indicted the driver; it first said two minutes were missing from the footage, then that they were not (investigation and courts)
- [Basic Court in Niš](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/osnovni-sud-nis): In a ruling that was not final, it sentenced the driver to three years and ten months in prison and a four-year driving ban (investigation and courts)
- [Court of Appeal in Niš](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/apelacioni-sud-nis): It amended the verdict and, in a final ruling, convicted Stanojević and sentenced him to four years and six months in prison (investigation and courts)
- [Supreme Court](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/vrhovni-sud): On 21 April 2023, dismissed as inadmissible the defence's request for the protection of legality (investigation and courts)
- [Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/mup-srbije): In 2019, the traffic police said the footage showed Babić could not have been the driver and that no part of it was missing (commented on the case)
- [Administration for the Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/uprava-za-izvrsenje-krivicnih-sankcija): Did not answer where Stanojević is serving his sentence, instead pointing to tabloid articles (investigation and courts)
- [Second Basic Court in Belgrade](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/drugi-osnovni-sud-beograd): Replied in 2024 that Stanojević has been serving his sentence since 23 May 2022 at the Požarevac–Zabela Correctional Institution (investigation and courts)
- [Student List – Students Are Winning](https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/studentska-lista): On 29 October 2026, called on prosecutors to urgently reopen the investigation into the Doljevac toll plaza case (oversight and the public)

## Victims and others harmed

- [Stanika Gligorijević](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/stanika-gligorijevic)
- [Mirjana Aleksić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/mirjana-aleksic)
- [Srđan Aleksić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/srdjan-aleksic)
- [Milutin Gligorijević](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/milutin-gligorijevic): Son of Stanika Gligorijević, who was killed
- [Aleksandar Gligorijević](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/aleksandar-gligorijevic): Son of Stanika Gligorijević, who was killed

## Sources

- [Danas: Supreme Court rejects request for protection of legality filed by Zoran Babić's driver, convicted over the Doljevac toll booth crash](<https://www.danas.rs/vesti/drustvo/vrhovni-sud-odbacio-zahtev-za-zastitu-zakonitosti-vozaca-bivseg-direktora-koridora-srbije-zorana-babica-koji-je-osudjen-za-nesrecu-na-naplatnoj-rampi-doljevac/>): 23 Jan 2024
- [B92: Motorway crash: one victim, Zoran Babić seriously injured](<https://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2019&mm=01&dd=31&nav_category=16&nav_id=1500221>): 31 Jan 2019
- [Južne vesti: Five years since the Doljevac crash, and five years of hiding the full footage](<https://www.juznevesti.com/hronika/pet-godina-od-nesrece-u-doljevcu-i-pet-godina-skrivanja-celog-snimka/>): 31 Jan 2024
- [Danas: Babić's driver not employed by Corridors of Serbia, was driving a car belonging to a company working on Corridor 10](<https://www.danas.rs/drustvo/uhapsen-vozac-zorana-babica-zbog-nesrece-u-doljevcu/>): 1 Feb 2019
- [021.rs: Babić's driver sentenced to four and a half years in prison over toll booth crash](<https://021.rs/story/Info/Srbija/293322/Babicev-vozac-osudjen-na-cetiri-i-po-godine-zatvora-za-nesrecu-na-naplatnoj-rampi.html>): 23 Dec 2021
- [Espreso: THERE WILL BE NO INVESTIGATION! Babić's driver charged with a LESSER OFFENCE, yet he killed a woman?!](<https://www.espreso.rs/vesti/hronika/352381/nece-biti-istrage-babicev-vozac-optuzen-za-blaze-delo-a-ubio-je-zenu>): 19 Feb 2019
- [Danas: Stefanović: Babić is resigning](<https://www.danas.rs/vesti/drustvo/stefanovic-babic-podnosi-ostavku/>): 1 Feb 2019
- [021.rs: Babić, who "resigned", also at today's signing of the contract to build the corridor](<https://www.021.rs/info/srbija/229235/babic-koji-je-podneo-ostavku-i-na-danasnjem-potpisivanju-ugovora-za-izgradnju-koridora>): 5 Dec 2019
- [Insajder: Aleksandar Antić replaces Zoran Babić as acting director of Corridors of Serbia](<https://insajder.net/vesti/aleksandar-antic-novi-vd-direktora-koridora-srbije-umesto-zorana-babica>): 14 Nov 2020
- [Insajder: Trial over the Doljevac toll booth crash resumes, lawyer asks for the injuries to be used to establish who was driving the “Corridors of Serbia” car](<https://insajder.net/najvaznije-vesti/nastavljeno-sudenje-za-nesrecu-kod-naplatne-rampe-doljevac-advokat-zatrazio-da-se-na-osnovu-povreda-utvrdi-ko-je-vozio-automobil-koridora>): 20 Jul 2020
- [Nova.rs: Mr President, let us see the two minutes of the Doljevac footage](<https://nova.rs/vesti/politika/predsednice-dajte-da-vidimo-dva-minuta-snimka-iz-doljevca/>): 9 Mar 2021
- [Kurir: VERDICT AMENDED OVER WOMAN'S DEATH AT DOLJEVAC TOLL BOOTH: 4.5 years in prison for Babić's driver](<https://www.kurir.rs/crna-hronika/3835483/presuda-naplatna-rampa-doljevac-nesreca-dejan-stanojevic>): 23 Dec 2021
- [Nova.rs: All the inconsistencies surrounding the Doljevac toll booth crash case](<https://nova.rs/uncategorized/sve-nelogicnosti-koje-su-pratili-slucaj-nesrece-na-naplatnoj-rampi-doljevac/>): 26 Dec 2021
- [Danas: Babić repeats that he was asleep in the back seat at the time of the crash](<https://www.danas.rs/drustvo/babic-ponovio-da-je-u-vreme-nesrece-spavao-na-zadnjem-sedistu/>): 12 Feb 2020
- [Telegraf: Here is the reasoning behind the Doljevac crash verdict: There was no evidence that Babić was behind the wheel](<https://www.telegraf.rs/vesti/hronika/3330481-evo-kako-je-obrazlozena-presuda-za-nesrecu-u-doljevcu-nije-bilo-dokaza-da-je-za-volanom-bio-babic>): 22 Apr 2021
- [Nova.rs: DISTURBING: We publish the Doljevac toll booth crash footage that has been sitting in the Roads of Serbia archive for 4 years VIDEO](<https://nova.rs/vesti/hronika/uznemirujuce-objavljujemo-snimke-nesrece-na-naplatnoj-rampi-doljevac-koji-se-nalaze-u-arhivi-puteva-srbije-vec-4-godine-video/>): 20 Jun 2023
- [Danas: Roads of Serbia hiding footage of the Doljevac toll booth crash](<https://www.danas.rs/vesti/drustvo/putevi-srbije-kriju-snimke-nesrece-na-naplatnoj-rampi-u-doljevcu/>): 26 Nov 2019
- [N1: Interior Ministry: Footage clearly shows the moment of the crash and that Babić could not have been the driver](<https://n1info.rs/vesti/a554989-MUP-Zoran-Babic-nije-vozio/>): 23 Dec 2019
- [Danas: Prelević: Prosecutors should go after Vučić for hiding the “two minutes”](<https://www.danas.rs/drustvo/prelevic-tuzilastvo-da-goni-vucica-zbog-sakrivanja-dva-minuta/>): 17 Mar 2021
- [021.rs: Lawyer for injured parties in Doljevac crash again requests surveillance camera footage](<https://www.021.rs/story/Info/Srbija/271855/Advokat-ostecenih-u-nesreci-u-Doljevcu-ponovo-trazio-snimak-sa-nadzornih-kamera.html>): 20 Apr 2021
- [Radio Slobodna Evropa: No one will be held accountable for the missing two minutes of footage in the 'Doljevac' case](<https://www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/slucaj-doljevac-snimak/32799654.html>): 31 Jan 2024
- [N1: Where are the two minutes of footage from Doljevac? What the president says today, and what he promised](<https://n1info.rs/vesti/gde-su-dva-minuta-snimka-iz-doljevca-sta-predsednik-kaze-danas-a-sta-je-obecao/>): 30 Aug 2022
- [N1: The Doljevac case: a death, a lie and a video recording](<https://n1info.rs/ustavokrsitelj/slucaj-doljevac-smrt-laz-i-video-snimak/>): 30 Dec 2022
- [N1: "Those two minutes are gone and that's that, we will never see the footage because it was thrown away": The desperate family of Stanika Gligorijević](<https://n1info.rs/vesti/tih-dva-minuta-nema-pa-nema-necemo-videti-snimak-jer-je-bacen-ocajna-porodica-stanike-gligorijevic/>): 22 Jan 2024
- [Danas: "I think we will never see the two minutes of footage": The son-in-law of the late Stanika Gligorijević speaks to Danas on the fifth anniversary of the crash at the Doljevac toll plaza](<https://www.danas.rs/vesti/drustvo/stanika-gligorijevic-doljevac-srdjan-aleksic/>): 17 Jan 2024
- [N1: The two minutes that are there, then aren't: Lawyer warns the statute of limitations is approaching](<https://n1info.rs/vesti/dva-minuta-kojih-ima-pa-nema-advokat-upozorava-blizi-se-zastarelost/>): 13 Jun 2023
- [Danas: Božo Prelević on the Doljevac toll plaza footage: the Interior Ministry set a condition for the family of the late Stanika Gligorijević](<https://www.danas.rs/vesti/drustvo/bozo-prelevic-o-snimku-sa-naplatne-rampe-u-doljevcu-mup-dao-uslov-porodici-nastradale-stanike-gligorijevic/>): 12 Jun 2023
- [N1: Doljevac toll plaza footage nears the statute of limitations: “After that, those responsible will be amnestied and protected”](<https://n1info.rs/vesti/snimak-sa-naplatne-rampe-doljevac-zastareva-posle-toga-odgovorni-ce-biti-abolirani-i-zasticeni/>): 14 Jan 2024
- [Danas: Božo Prelević: Gašić should hand the Doljevac footage to the prosecution, the court, the public and the Gligorijević family](<https://www.danas.rs/vesti/drustvo/bozo-prelevic-gasic-da-dostavi-snimak-iz-doljevca-tuzilastvu-sudu-javnosti-i-porodici-gligorijevic/>): 16 Jun 2023
- [N1: Niš courts do not know where Babić's driver is in prison or since when; the prison administration answers with tabloid articles](<https://n1info.rs/vesti/niski-sudovi-ne-znaju-gde-je-i-od-kada-u-zatvoru-babicev-vozac-uprava-odgovara-tekstovima-tabloida/>): 7 Feb 2024
- [Danas: Two minutes](<https://www.danas.rs/dijalog/redakcijski-komentar/dva-minuta/>): 26 Dec 2019
- [Južne vesti: Babić's driver “found”: he is in Zabela, they say, but it is not known whether he is a “trusty”](<https://www.juznevesti.com/istrazujemo/pronadjen-babicev-vozac-kazu-u-zabeli-je-ne-zna-se-da-li-je-slobodnjak/>): 14 Feb 2024
- [N1: Stanika Gligorijević's son sends support to the students: greetings from the village of Debelica](<https://n1info.rs/vesti/sin-stanike-gligorijevic-poslao-podrsku-studentima-pozdravi-iz-sela-debelica/>): 13 Feb 2025
- [N1: The two minutes from the toll plaza - a "millstone around the neck" of Babić, whom the president declares innocent on the basis of unknown footage](<https://n1info.rs/vesti/dva-minuta-sa-naplatne-rampe-kamen-na-ledjima-babica-da-je-nevin-tvrdi-predsednik-na-osnovu-nepoznatog-snimka/>): 20 Jul 2025
- [Direktno.rs: The two minutes from the toll plaza - a "millstone around the neck" of Babić, whom the president declares innocent on the basis of unknown footage](<https://direktno.rs/politika/622682/aleksandar-vucic-doljevac-zoran-babic-saobracajna-nezgoda.html>): 20 Jul 2025
- [Nova.rs: Parandilović to Vučić: since you are so bold about releasing footage, release the footage of the 2019 crash at the toll plaza near Doljevac](<https://nova.rs/vesti/politika/parandilovic-vucicu-kad-si-tako-hrabar-u-objavljivanju-snimaka-objavi-snimak-nesrece-iz-2019-na-naplatnoj-rampi-kod-doljevca/>): 6 Oct 2025
- [Serbian News Media (SNM): Opposition demands the footage: Parandilović calls on Vučić to release video of the Doljevac crash](<https://snm.rs/opozicija-trazi-snimke-parandilovic-pozvao-vucica-da-objavi-video-nesrece-iz-doljevca/>): 6 Oct 2025
- [N1: Student list demands resignations in the police, BIA, VBA and prosecutors' offices, scrutiny of the money for all projects, and the reopening of investigations in many cases](<https://n1info.rs/vesti/studentska-lista-trazi-ostavke-u-policiji-bia-vba-tuzilastvima-proveru-novca-za-sve-projekte-i-ponovno-pokretanje-istraga-u-mnogim-slucajevima/>): 29 Oct 2026
- [Novosadski reporter: STUDENT LIST PRESS CONFERENCE: all public prosecutors' offices must act in cases of major public interest](<https://nsreporter.rs/2026/10/konferecnija-studentske-liste-na-otvorenom-da-sva-javna-tuzilastva-zakonito-nepristrasno-i-hitno-preduzmu-postupanje-u-predmetima-koji-su-izazivali-veliku-paznju-javnosti/>): 29 Oct 2026

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