One dead, 3 critical after train hits car in Negombo
December 22, 2017 01:27 pm
A 16-year-old girl was killed while another three were critically wounded after the vehicle they were traveling in collided with a train at a railway crossing in Kattuwa, Negombo.
Ada Derana reporter said that a Tata Nano car had attempted to travel through the crossing near the Kattuwa railway station when it had collided with a slow train traveling from Chilaw to Colombo.
The deceased, a teenage girl, was a passenger inside the vehicle at the time of the accident and had died on the spot while the other three have been admitted to the Negombo Hospital in critical condition.
Eyewitnesses say that the driver of the vehicle, the mother of the deceased, had attempted to cross the rail track despite repeated warnings by people nearby of the oncoming train.
Some eyewitnesses claim that the woman was on the phone while driving.
The wreckage of the vehicle has been removed from the track and train services along the line have resumed, he said.
Negombo Police is conducting an investigation into the incident.
