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Learner driver kills pedestrian
View(s):A pedestrian was run over and killed by a person taking driving lessons on the Kaduwela road last Sunday (13), a coroner’s court heard.
The driver had lost control of the vehicle and hit the accelerator before crashing into three cars and running over the man.
Three other individuals were injured in the accident. The deceased identified as Navin Perera, 40, a father of two from Battaramulla, had been walking along the side of the road when the car hit him from behind.
Giving evidence before the Colombo Additional City Coroner Ashroff Rumi, Mr. Perera’s wife Paragodage Roshini, 32, said that she was at work when she received the bad news.
“My husband had been walking on the side of the road when the car crashed into him. He was taken to the Colombo National Hospital immediately. He died at the ICU of the hospital,” she said.
Judicial Medical Officer Dr. S. Paranavan who conducted the postmortem said the death was caused by damage to the skull and backbone after he was run over by the vehicle.
Meanwhile, Mr. Rumi concluded that when the driver lost control of the car she knocked into three vehicles and ran over the pedestrian which killed him. He ordered the woman driver to be produced before the Coroner’s Court on October 22nd.