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Young motorcyclist dies after being run over by jeep
View(s):A schoolboy riding a friend’s motorbike, on his way to convey his success at the GCE (O/L) exam to his friends, was killed when he collided with a jeep in Angoda, and was run over by it, a Coroner’s court inquiry was told yesterday.
The incident took place late on Thursday evening after the victim had attended a computer class.
The victim, Dimuthu Kankanamge Nilendra Lakshan (17) was on his way to a friend’s house at Butgamuwa, Angoda, when he met with the accident at Galpatha Junction around 9 pm.
He was admitted to Mulleriyawa hospital and later transferred to the Colombo National Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, where he succumbed to his injuries the following day.
The deceased’s father, Dineth Kankanamge Sarath (48) told the Coroner’s court, inquiry that, though his son could ride a motorcycle, he did not have a licence.
National Hospital JMO, Dr Prasadini Senarath said that death was due to a damaged spinal cord as a result of being run over by the jeep, following the boy’s fall from the motorbike.
Inquirer into Sudden Deaths, M. Ashroff Rumi instructed the Mulleriyawa Police to produce the driver of the jeep to the Coroner’s court on April 18. The driver is in remand custody.