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Wahanaya Team · 18 days ago
2,095 dead on SL roads since January, most on two wheels — why so numb to this?
Police figures put it at 2,095 people killed in 1,988 accidents between January 1 and October 6 this year — about seven deaths a day, every day, for over nine months straight. Motorcyclists made up 617 of those deaths and pedestrians another 576, so more than half the toll is people who weren't even inside a car when they died. One argument is that this is on the riders and walkers themselves: no helmets, crossing mid-road instead of at a zebra crossing, overtaking from the inside on narrow lanes never built for this much two-wheeler traffic. The other argument points at everyone else — buses and trucks that don't slow down for pedestrians, no proper shoulders for bikes to pull into, and police checkpoints that wave people through without a second look. Either way, the number keeps climbing every few months and nothing seems to actually move it.
If you're on these roads daily as a rider, walker, or driver, where do you put the blame — bad habits, bad roads, or no enforcement? And is there one change you've actually seen work, even locally?
මේ ගානට මාර්ග අනතුරු වැඩි වීම ගැන ඔයාගේ අත්දැකීම මොකක්ද?
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