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Crashes claim eight lives in two days
View(s):Eight people were killed in four separate accidents on the country’s roads over the past two days amid rising concern over speeding and other problems. A nine-year-old child was killed and his father critically injured when the motorcycle in which they were riding collided with a bus in Ahangama area yesterday. The father was admitted to hospital.
On Friday, five people were killed in Polonnaruwa when a private bus skidded off the road and hit a tree at around 3am. Twenty people were injured. The dead included four Samurdhi officers from Batticaloa who had been travelling home after attending a seminar in Colombo.
Also on Friday, one person died and five others were injured when their vehicle skidded off the road and hit a fence near Ulapane Muslim School on the Nawalapitiya-Gampola road. The dead man was identified as the Zonal Deputy Education Director of Gampola district, Badra Jawaweera, 48.
In the Galewala area the same day, a 32-year-old man waiting to board a bus on the Kurunegala-Dambulla road was killed when a lorry transporting sand crashed into the bus, which had halted to take on passengers. The drivers of both vehicles and some bus passengers were injured and taken to hospital. The lorry driver is under arrest.
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