Everyday we see an incident like this, but naturally the bus drivers gets blamed for it. It’s a tradged what has happened.

If you ask me, I’d say most of the bike riders, and 3 wheel drivers are asking for it. You all know, if say you’re driving your car, how they creep in, jump infront, and so on.

Inaddition to the bus menace, we need focus put on bikers and trishaws.

In the story below it’s stated “According to eyewitnesses, the accident occurred when the motorcyclist tried to overtake the private bus.”

How fast was the bus going when the bike tried to overtake ? What’s the speed limit for bikes ?

I think this rule, these fines, and so on have to be enforced more on all of us, look at the kids racing on the streets, most with no license but fancy cars, we don’t see focus on that. I heard they even ran over and killed a kid, but this was not shown, so who do we pick on ?

Mother of four run over by private bus

Hardly had the dust settled on Tuesday’s islandwide private bus strike for a withdrawal of tough laws against traffic offences when a woman was run over by a private bus in Miriswatta, Gampaha yesterday.

The mishap occurred around 7.40 am when the motorcycle on which the victim (32) was travelling with her husband collided with a Colombo-bound private bus from Teldeniya. The victim has been identified as Rebbecca Balasuriya, an employee of a leading private firm in Colombo and a mother of two.

According to eyewitnesses, the accident occurred when the motorcyclist tried to overtake the private bus.

The victim and her husband had been thrown off the motorcycle after being knocked down, with the rear wheel of the bus running over the woman’s head.

She succumbed to her injuries at the Gampaha Base Hospital, where the husband who also suffered severe injuries is receiving treatment.

The bus driver was arrested by Gampaha police.

On Monday night, a cyclist was also knocked down and dragged along on the Polgahawela-Kegalle road by a private bus, hours before the islandwide strike launched by private bus operators.

http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/08/11/news15.htm