12 injured in Southern Expressway collision

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At least 12 people have been injured and admitted to hospital after a bus carrying pilgrims collided with a lorry on the Southern Expressway between Kurundugahahetekma and Baddegama.

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Mahila Friday, 23 December 2022 03:02 PM

This expressway is not built incorporated with safety factors as reserve areas to pull up and rest at regular intervals as per International standards!!?? So every now and then we have crashes and killings!!?? The powers that be never allowed the expressway to be built progressively as a single lane and then as dual lane highway with sufficient RESERVE provision for such rest stations!!?? Chief Engineer/Architect and or his siblings never drive and are driven; so we have this white elephant!!?? Only achievement was the 20% by the Chinese contractor!!?? It’s the primitive Galle Road with a different track!!!?? Sri Lankans are there to be fooled all the time by “Ape Miniha”, the Messiah!!??

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Tissa Fernando Friday, 23 December 2022 06:50 PM

What is this comment man, it is like you blaming the knife when someone uses it to stab another. Highways are not race tracks and these buses made in India are not meant to be driven at high speed too. Hundreds of thousands of vehicles reach the destination and it is the usual arrogant stupid and drunken drivers cause accidents with distracted driving with unfit vehicles.

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Seqi Friday, 23 December 2022 05:40 PM

මහිලා..... There are two good rest areas on either side near the half-way mark. There are plenty of places to rest before entering the highway. Telling lies does not enlighten anybody.

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Mahila Saturday, 24 December 2022 03:52 PM

Rest areas outside the E01 is irrelevant!!! Anyway, this is all because the Pundits haven't sufficient experience in Motorway driving!! Perhaps for kilometres they cannot get out of the monotonous driving, which causes stress!! Once you enter the Motorway/Expressway, if you feel tired or lack concentration, there is no opportunity or limited opportunity to deviate and remain safely!!?? Why?? According to your own admission, there is one on each direction near half way mark!!! It is always recommended, that if stressed by fatigue or tiredness, to immediately pull over to the reserve lane and make sure you rest 15 minutes to 20 minutes maximum (to ensure not to enter state deep sleep) and not to continue to drive if stressed by fatigue!!! All is good until disaster Strikes! Sri Lankans are good at everything and personally seen drivers regularly dabbing themselves (their faces) with Water from a Bottle, while on the run!!

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Mahila Saturday, 24 December 2022 03:52 PM

Rest areas outside the E01 is irrelevant!!! Anyway, this is all because the Pundits haven't sufficient experience in Motorway driving!! Perhaps for kilometres they cannot get out of the monotonous driving, which causes stress!! Once you enter the Motorway/Expressway, if you feel tired or lack concentration, there is no opportunity or limited opportunity to deviate and remain safely!!?? Why?? According to your own admission, there is one on each direction near half way mark!!! It is always recommended, that if stressed by fatigue or tiredness, to immediately pull over to the reserve lane and make sure you rest 15 minutes to 20 minutes maximum (to ensure not to enter state deep sleep) and not to continue to drive if stressed by fatigue!!! All is good until disaster Strikes! Sri Lankans are good at everything and personally seen drivers regularly dabbing themselves (their faces) with Water from a Bottle, while on the run!!

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Mahila Saturday, 24 December 2022 04:07 PM

Tissa Fernando, Sorry, but must point out you have missed the target!! Not promoting a race Track or drunken driving at all on E01!! Not at any time!! I was strenuously talking about the improper design of the E01 - specifically lack of rest areas or reserve areas in both direction!!?? There should be every 10 miles (15-16 Kms) which if available would avert this sort of accidents!! This is stress and fatigue related and may be occasionally drugs and alcohol!! If so what is the Police up to??? Collecting kappan () bribes)!!!?? That is as usual the NORM. Anyway that's another matter, but the fatigue part could be alleviated if addressed properly, would safe lifes and damage to property and life, importantly scarce, valuable USD!!??

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Tissa Fernando Saturday, 24 December 2022 11:03 PM

Hello Mahila, no country has built rest areas every 10 miles. In the United States, you can find rest areas in major highways every 60 miles. No one is going to stop every 10 miles to take rest. There are two major rest areas in the Galle express way. It is Not the rest areas that matter, it is how you drive that matters. Of course , before you start a long journey you must have had a good night sleep, and the rest areas are not meant to replace such sleep at your place. Rest areas mainly for refreshments and to release your toxic waste from the body. Dont blame the knife when someone use it for stabbing others.

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Mahila Monday, 26 December 2022 04:16 AM

(Part III) This worthy – honourable he is as considered by his electorate - has declared in the same speech, that, GOING FORWARD HE WOULD ENDEVOUR TO BE ON TIME!!?? HEY, GIVE ME A MINUTE, THEN WHAT HAPPENED ALL THESE DAYS!!!?? GIVE ME A BREAK; THAT STATEMENT OF THE ‘HONOURABLE’, “OUTSTANDING IT IS AND FLOORED” ME COMPLETELY – LOCK STOCK AND BARRELL!!!?? THERE ISN’T ANY POINT OUR DEBATING THIS??? THE OUTCOMES ARE EVIDENCE OF SUPREMACY OF THE E01 DESIGN OR THE LACK OF IT!!! TIME WILL BE THE BEST JUDGE! AS WELL AS THE ENVIRONMENTAL STATE MINISTRY UNDER WORTHY – NO ALTERNATIVE!? Concluding,, wish to thank you for your contribution, though unfortunately at his moment of time we have no agreement!!!?? The greatest insignia of gentlemanly resolution of mind and matter!!! May the triple gem bless Lanka and Lankans!!

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Piyal Perera Sunday, 25 December 2022 06:37 AM

My main concern is the way people overtake a vehicle. No indication to overtake most of the time and not allowing sufficient distance before merging again (one should see the vehicle being overtaken from the side mirror before merging). Similar information can be incorporated in a short course. Why not send an informational video to the mobile phone.

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Mahila Monday, 26 December 2022 04:26 AM

Addendum Hi Tissa, I believe, if the word RESERVE AREA OR REST AREA is changed to "BREAKDOWN LANE", or “lay by area” believe that my comments would make more sense and be meaningful!!?? That's what is lacking and lacking in abundance, considering the average or prepondent age and type of vehicle on our roads, lack of regular mandatory checks and regular servicing (preventative type) may give better picture of what I am alluding!!!!

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Tissa Fernando Monday, 26 December 2022 06:42 AM

Not only overtaking, many still can't drive with some lane discipline. I have seen many instances where one set of tires are crossing the other lane by yards.

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Mahila Monday, 26 December 2022 02:04 PM

Part i) Hi Tissa Fernando, Again we are not at convergence, not very surprising either!!! Believe I wasn’t clear?? If you have ROAD RESERVATION FOR VEHICLE to "pull up" at 10 miles (16 Km) intervals, does not mean that you pull up at each and every one of it!! Not acceptable! THEN YOU HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH THAT DRIVER – HE SHOULD NOT BE ON THE EXPRESSWAY) NO WAY! At specified max speed believe 100 KmPH, you give the DRIVERS OPTION TO THE CONCERNED DRIVER TO PULL UP SAFELY every 15 minutes, allowing REST OF THE TRAFFIC TO PASS UNHINDERED in such instances!! I am certain that’s what happened in this instance? The consequential mistake is assuming that all users, without exception commence their journey and end it hopefully at the START or FINISH POINT of the expressway E01!!? UNREALITIC!??Part i) Hi Tissa Fernando, Again we are not at convergence, not very surprising either!!! Believe I wasn’t clear?? If you have ROAD RESERVATION FOR VEHICLE to "pull up" at 10 miles (16 Km) (TBC)

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Mahila Monday, 26 December 2022 02:05 PM

(PART II) THEREFOE I MUST DISAGREE WITH YOUR VALUED COMMENT!! FOR INSTANCE THEY MAY HAVE STARTED AT TANAMALVILLA OR GAMPAHA – OTHER END! Could anyone reveal the engineering ‘Golden brain’, who designed it?? Devoid of reality!!?? WORLDWIDE THE ADVISE IS REST AND RESTORE EVERY 2 HOURS MAXIMUM (NOT OPTIONAL!) No Sri Lankan worthy of his salt would admit any shortcomings in themselves!!?? One doesn’t need any knowledge of Robert Knox, which is too long ago for SL to remember!!?? What more do you need to prove the point than take the case of most Honourable State Minister of Environment, HE WHO HAS NOT DONE ANY WRONG AND HAD BEEN ON TIME INSPITE OF THE KOREAN DELEGATION LEADERS VERBOSE ON MINISTERIL RESPONSIBILITY AND LEADERSHIP?? (TBC)

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Mahila Monday, 26 December 2022 02:08 PM

(Part III) This worthy – honourable he is as considered by his electorate - has declared in the same speech, that, GOING FORWARD HE WOULD ENDEVOUR TO BE ON TIME!!?? HEY, GIVE ME A MINUTE, THEN WHAT HAPPENED ALL THESE DAYS!!!?? GIVE ME A BREAK; THAT STATEMENT OF THE ‘HONOURABLE’, “OUTSTANDING IT IS AND FLOORED” ME COMPLETELY – LOCK STOCK AND BARRELL!!!?? THERE ISN’T ANY POINT OUR DEBATING THIS??? THE OUTCOMES ARE EVIDENCE OF SUPREMACY OF THE E01 DESIGN OR THE LACK OF IT!!! TIME WILL BE THE BEST JUDGE! AS WELL AS THE ENVIRONMENTAL STATE MINISTRY UNDER WORTHY – NO ALTERNATIVE!? Concluding,, wish to thank you for your contribution, though unfortunately at his moment of time we have no agreement!!!?? The greatest insignia of gentlemanly resolution of mind and matter!!! May the triple gem bless Lanka and Lankans!!

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