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Container kills girl (23) riding pillion on boyfriend’s motorbike
View(s):A young girl riding pillion on a motorcycle with her boyfriend, died after being thrown off her seat when a container hit them from the rear in Weligampitiya, on the Negombo Road, the coroner’s court was told this week.
R. Dilushika, 23, was identified as the victim.Lakshitha Madumal, 25, giving evidence before the Ragama Coroners’s Court, said they were heading home on his bike after work when he had to reduce speed for a SLTB bus ahead of them which slowed suddenly and a container approaching from behind hit his bike.
“My motorcycle was thrown in front and hit the bus. My girlfriend was found bleeding from the head and was rushed to Ragama Hospital and admitted to the ICU, where she passed away on Wednesday,” he said. Drivers of the SLTB bus and the Container were remanded and will be produced before the Coroner’s Courts on March 26.