PE "Roads of Serbia" continuously implements safety and security measures and carries out a number of activities in order to improve the level of safety of road users.
Special emphasis is placed on tunnels and tunnel zones, whose supervision and traffic management are organized from tunnel operational centers with permanent duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
In cooperation with other emergency services, extensive preparations are made and periodic exercises are continuously carried out and response procedures are coordinated so that employees in tunnel operational centers react adequately and minimize the consequences of a traffic accident or emergency event.
"Despite the measures taken, the PE "Roads of Serbia" recorded 3,428 emergency events from 6 tunnel operational centers in 2024," says Ivan Terzić, Assistant Executive Director of the Department for Traffic Safety. "There were also 62 traffic accidents in tunnels with 4 injured people, without fatalities, while there were also accidents with fatalities in the tunnel's impact zones," Terzić emphasizes.
Terzić highlights the movement of vehicles in the opposite direction and the occurrence of fires in the tunnel or tunnel zone as particularly dangerous traffic behavior, which can potentially have serious consequences for traffic participants.
In order to reduce traffic accidents in tunnels and tunnel zones, and to educate drivers on safe behavior in tunnels under normal traffic conditions and safe behavior in tunnels in the event of emergencies, the PE "Roads of Serbia", as a socially responsible enterprise, in addition to other educational campaigns it conducts, has launched and implemented the following two educational campaigns:
- "Safely through the tunnel"
- "We are not alone in the tunnel"
Terzić adds that the training of employees in responding to fires in the tunnel is at a high level and that in the previous period, with adequate response of personnel and technical systems installed in the tunnels, fires were extinguished in a timely manner, with adequate response from the competent services and without casualties.
You can view the statement of the Assistant Executive Director of the TMIS Sector, Ivan Terzić, at:
You can view the simulation of an emergency event in the tunnel at link.
