Matara: One dead, six injured in head-on collision | Sunday Observer

Matara: One dead, six injured in head-on collision

22 November, 2020
The damaged truck.
The damaged truck.

A sixty-year-old man died while six others were injured when a private bus crashed head-on with a truck at Eliyakanda Matara yesterday morning .

The bus bound for Moneragala had left the Matara bus stand at around 6.30 a.m. and crashed head-on with the truck while trying to overtake a SLTB bus at a bend. It was transporting vegetables to the Kotuwegoda market. The deceased, a resident of Bandattara, Matara was the driver of truck while the driver and conductor of the bus were among the injured admitted to the General Hospital Matara. The Matara Police are conducting further inquiries.

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