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This private coach which was proceeding to Matara with a full complement of passengers ran off the road and crashed against a coconut tree at Waskaduwa Kalutara on Sunday Morning. According to the Kalutara North Police one person died on the spot....
The Times of Ceylon Press
The scene when two buses collided on a bridge near Izmir, Turkey and one of them crashed through the stone parapet and the front wheels hung hundred of feet above the roadway. A woman in a panic with a baby in her arm jumped from the bus they were...
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A CTB Bus carrying a full-load of passengers boarded a trailer at Galle Face. This incident took place close to Dehiwala junction. Fortunately no one was injured. Picture shows a close up of the bus with its front wheels aboard the rear of the tra...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Bus Crashed head-on to a Wall at De Soysa
Most of the passengers in this bus plying on the Moratuwa-Piliyandala route sustained sever injuries when this bus crashed head-on to a wall at De Soysa Road, Moratuwa. The boutique by the side of the road was reduced to smithereens.
The Times of Ceylon Press
A motorcycle with two young men travelling to Kataragama collided with a CTB express bus travelling to Colombo at the Hikkaduwa Wellawatte deadly bend. One youth died while the other sustained heavy injuries. The picture shows how the motorcycle h...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Joyce Ranjini holding her mother's hand in a ward at the Puttalam Hospital. Both of them received minor injuries but were suffering from severe shock.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Seven persons were injured when a Negombo bound double decker bus and a single decker bus from Ambatale collided this morning at the Armour Street junction. One of the injured, a boy was taken to the General Hospital, Colombo with a fractured arm....
The Times of Ceylon Press
CTB Bus Crashed on Express Train at the Old Kottawa Road
CTB Bus which ran into the Colombo-Maharagama express train at the Old-Kottawa Road, unprotected level crossing at Nawinna.
Daily Mirror
CTB Double Deckers Crash Head-On at Lower Lake Road, Fort.
120 passengers miraculously escape the crash of two double deckers head-on. Although the drivers cabins were a mass of twisted metal; the two drivers escaped with minor injuries. They were taken into police custody and later released on bail. Only...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Car Accident Kills On Passengers and Driver on the Spot
The Times of Ceylon Press