Disaster averted at Kelaniya crossing
A Gampaha-bound bus carrying 40 passengers narrowly missed a major collision with a train at the main Kandy-Colombo road at Pattiya Junction in Kelaniya, eyewitnesses said.

The bus driver apparently had tried to cross the railway line through the closed barrier to beat the office rush. But as he entered the crossing he had seen the oncoming train and managed to manoeuvre the bus parallel to the track.

The train driver too had seen the bus and applied the brakes. Eyewitnesses said that if the train had failed to stop, it would have hit the bus.
The bus passengers had tried to assault a shocked driver, but timely police intervention prevented any untoward incidents. The driver was to be produced before a magistrate, police said.

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