Driving cars down Sarajevo evoked imaginable sensation, and even greater in the Sarajevo field, where the farmers from the bazaar by the way admired some kind of ‘’devil carriages, flying on the road’’.
This is how the news published in the Sarajevski list on July 10th 1902 looked like. Namely, several participants of the race Paris-Vienna arrived in B&H after the people of Sarajevo met with the cars.
The first car with a permanent address in Sarajevo arrived three years after this news. Behind its wheel was the Austro-Hungarian officer Ljudevit (Ludwig) Wolf, who drove in a postal car.
Wolf was also the first driving instructor in the city.
The first car accident in B&H, in addition, occurred in 1905, on the road from Bosanski Novi to Bihać, and the former journalist accompanied it with the following words:
‘’All that is being born, has its death, all that is made, can be destroyed, and so can cars’’.
Nobody was injured in the accident.
(Source: radiosarajevo.ba/ photo delcampe)