Three Buses, One Overtake, 5 Dead on the A9 — Is Reckless Overtaking by Buses Normal Here?

On the morning of November 10, two SLTB buses and a private bus collided on the A9 near Rambewa, killing five people and injuring dozens more. Police say an SLTB bus pulling out to overtake a private bus went head-on into another SLTB bus coming from the opposite direction, with rain-slicked tarmac making things worse. A court has now ordered a probe, but this isn't the first time a bus overtaking on a narrow highway has ended with bodies on the road. Some say this is a driver and depot problem: tight schedules push crews to overtake on blind stretches, and state buses get away with it because no one tracks driver records closely. Others say the real issue is the road itself — no median, no speed cameras, barely any enforcement on two-lane highways carrying heavy long-distance traffic, so the next reckless overtake, by anyone, ends the same way. Have you had a close call with a bus overtaking on a highway, private or SLTB? What would actually stop this — speed governors, GPS monitoring, grounding reckless drivers, or redesigning these roads? ඔබත් බස් එකක් අනතුරුදායක විදිහට පාස් කරගෙන යනකොට පාර මත තිගැස්සුණාද?