Rambewa's 3-Bus Pile-Up Killed 5 — Private Buses or SLTB, Which Scares You More?

On the morning of November 10, two SLTB buses collided head-on on the A9 near Rambewa, Anuradhapura, and before anyone could clear the wreckage, a private bus ran into the back of one of them. Five people are dead, more than fifty are in Anuradhapura Hospital, and police are still working out who was overtaking whom on that stretch of road. Ask any private-bus critic and they'll tell you it's always the same story: commission-chasing drivers racing for the next stop, overtaking blind on narrow roads. Ask someone who's ridden SLTB regularly and they'll say the buses are just as bad — underpowered, poorly maintained, drivers doing long shifts with nobody checking on them. Both sides point fingers, but the deaths keep piling up on the same long, straight stretches where everyone feels safe enough to speed. Have you had a close call with a bus — private or SLTB — on a road like this? What actually went wrong: the driver, the road, or just bad luck meeting a blind spot? ඔයාලට බස් එකක් එක්ක තදින් හැප්පෙන්න ආපු අත්දැකීමක් තියෙනවද? ඇත්තටම වැරැද්ද කාගේද කියලා හිතෙනවද?