Fwd: Southern Highway- First Accident Photos.

[Hemanthi Ranasinghe]

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From: thisara welhena <wel...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:17 PM
Subject: Southern Highway- First Accident Photos.
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Hi these are photoes of the first accidetn in the Southern Highway just after its opend.

See the attached photoes. Taken by one of my friends working there.

 

Thisara Welhena

--- On Mon, 28/11/11, Chaminda Perera <hacp...@gmail.com> wrote: F ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chaminda Perera <hacp...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:48 AM Subject: Re: STDP First Accident Photos. To: lohitha Senarath <lohitha....@gmail.com> Cc: "Indrajeet Singh [TL-RI-STDP]" <inderjeet...@gmail.com> Hi all, Here is images that I took this morning. This van was driving high speed (frankly not more than 120km/hr) and overtaken me around 15 kms before this incident place. It was splashing water to sides and it was very uncomfortable to the vehicles in the back. It was heavy raining this morning from K'gaha to Kottawa, aquaplaning and speed are causing this accident. On high speed facilities it is probable that cars can aquaplane at speeds less than the legal limits (100 km/hr in E01). It must be remembered that the surface in Southern Expressway is much smoother. BTW, friends, I had to pay the toll. ooopps free driving is ended,   A foreigner was traveling with a driver. Both of them are unharmed except few scratches. I talked to the driver, he said due to water film he couldn't control the van. Center median guard rail is damaged too. Regards, Chaminda On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:37 AM, lohitha Senarath <lohitha....@gmail.com> wrote: STDP First Accident Photos.   The first accident on the Southern Expressway occurred today (November 28) at 7.15am when a speeding vehicle toppled over injuring two persons, the Galanigama Police stated.   The vehicle was unable to control its speed causing it to topple making it the first accident on the expressway since it was declared open yesterday (November 27) by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

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Prof. Hemanthi Ranasinghe
Professor of Forestry and Environmental Science
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Nugegoda
Sri Lanka
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