State Road 22, commonly known as Ibar Highway (Serbian: Ибарска магистрала, Ibarska magistrala), is an IB-class road, connecting Belgrade with Šumadija and Western Serbia and finally with Montenegro at Špiljani border crossing.

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State Road 22
Serbian: Državni put IB reda 22 Serbian Cyrillic: Државни пут IБ реда 22
Ibar Highway
Route information
Part of E763 Belgrade – Preljina E761 Preljina – Kraljevo E65 / E80 Bregovi – Mehov Krš
Maintained by JP "Putevi Srbije"
Length	297.987 km (185.161 mi)
Major junctions
From	Belgrade A1 / E75
Major intersections	346 near Sremčica 147 near Guncati 343 near Meljak 344 in Meljak 148 in Stepojevac 27 near Lazarevac 175 near Ćelije 150 near Ljig A2 in Ljig 360 in Dići 152 near Rudnik 177 near Gornji Milanovac 23 in Preljina 46 in Mrčajevci 179 in Kraljevo 410 near Mataruška Banja 30 in Ušće 411 near Ušće 207 in Biljanovac 412 in Brvenik 31 near Raška 198 in Raška 29 in Novi Pazar 206 in Novi Pazar 32 in Ribariće 203 near Bregovi
To	Serbia – Montenegro Border at Mehov Krš M-5 / E-65 / E-80
Location
Country	Serbia
Districts	City of Belgrade, Kolubara, Moravica, Raška
Highway system
Roads in Serbia Motorways
← 21 → 23

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It starts with Orlovača interchange in Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica and is going through several major municipalities such as Ljig, Gornji Milanovac, Preljina (town in the municipality of Čačak), Kraljevo and Novi Pazar. In the southern section, highway goes in parallel to the upper course of the river Ibar, hence the name.

Before the new road categorization regulation given in 2013, the route wore the following names: M 22 and M 2 (before 2012) / A2, A4, 15 and 32 (after 2012).^[1][2]

The road is a part of the following European routes: E65 and E80 (Bregovi – Mehov Krš), E761 (Preljina – Kraljevo) and E763 (Belgrade – Preljina).

In order to provide the safer and faster traffic link of Belgrade with Western Serbia and Montenegrin coast, and to alleviate the dangers of the Ibar Highway, the new A2 motorway is under construction from Čačak to border with Montenegro. The section from Belgrade bypass to Čačak was completed in 2019, and since then the traffic over the highway on section from Belgrade to Čačak was significantly reduced.^[3]

A single-lane carriageway, it bears heavy car and truck traffic between major cities of Belgrade, Čačak, Kraljevo and Novi Pazar, as well as transit traffic towards Montenegro, and occasional agricultural machinery is not unseen. If features long stretches of straight road interrupted by dangerous curves. Speeding, DUI and other traffic offences are major causes of accidents, most of them occurring during the night.^[4]

In three-year span from 2017 to 2019, a total of 1,736 traffic accidents happened on its route, with 86 deaths and 1,619 injured people.^[3]

Before the completion of motorway on section from Belgrade to Čačak, with more than 18,000 vehicles passing the highway daily (as of 2016), it was one of the most frequent roads in Serbia.^[5] Often called the "black highway", it is considered the most dangerous road in Serbia, averaging several hundreds traffic accidents annually.^[6][7][8]

• Roads in Serbia
• European route E65
• European route E80
• European route E761
• European route E763