A traffic accident involving a passenger car and a lorry closed road I/20 near the village of Sedlec in the České Budějovice area on 2 November 2026. According to police spokesman Milan Bajcura, the passenger car entered the opposite lane and collided with the lorry. The semi-trailer of the truck came to rest across the road [1][2][3].
Police stopped traffic while the accident was dealt with and directed a diversion. According to Bajcura, it ran from the Nová Hospoda guesthouse to the left towards Dívčice and Týn nad Vltavou [1][3].
The emergency medical services dispatch centre sent a crew, a vehicle with a doctor and an air ambulance helicopter to the scene. According to Václav Burian, spokesman of the Emergency Medical Service of the South Bohemian Region, paramedics treated a seriously injured woman, whom firefighters freed from the wrecked vehicle. The helicopter then took her to the hospital in České Budějovice [1][2].
Chronology
- — A collision between a car that crossed into the oncoming lane and a truck closed road I/20 near Sedlec in the České Budějovice district, with a rescue helicopter dispatched to a severely injured woman. Deník: České Budějovice / Jižní Čechy Deník: České Budějovice / Jižní Čechy
Sources
- Budějcká Drbna — 2 November 2026
- Deník: České Budějovice / Jižní Čechy — 2 November 2026
- Deník: České Budějovice / Jižní Čechy — 2 November 2026