By order of the Director of the Kozani District Attorney’s Office, the Kozani Police Department was ordered to carry out an urgent preliminary examination in order to investigate:

1. whether the measures taken after the recent detection of cracks in the tendons of the High Bridge of Serbia ensure conditions for safe use of the bridge even for vehicles under 3.5 tons, a fact that is ordered to be ascertained by all means,

2. if, as a result of the existing restrictions on the use of the bridge, the safe movement of heavy vehicles (over 3.5 tons) is ensured by alternative routes, especially in cases where these vehicles pass through residential areas and

3. what actions have been taken to date to restore the problem of safe traffic on the Serbion Bridge and what are the reasons for the delay in solving the problem in question, (it should be noted that a related criminal case file was also filed in 2020).

In the same order, the need to take even measures to completely ban traffic in the event of establishing even the slightest possibility of a risk of the bridge in question collapsing, until it is ensured that its use does not pose any risk at all.