 His chauffeur, Ratko Živadinović, had very poor eyesight and, on approaching a bridge on the Hubelj River, failed to notice that it had been partially destroyed by Partisan saboteurs.Ljotić was killed on 23 April 1945 in the ensuing car accident in Istria near Bistrica.He was buried in a Hungarian count's abandoned crypt in the town of Šempeter pri Gorici.