Three on One Bike, One Rider Just 16 — Who Do We Blame When It Goes Wrong?

On Sunday night in Alaveddy, Jaffna, a motorcycle carrying three people hit a wall after the rider lost control. A 16-year-old and a 28-year-old died; the third passenger is still in hospital. It's a pattern most of us have seen on our own roads: two or three people stacked on a 100-125cc bike, sometimes no helmet on the back riders, sometimes a rider who's barely old enough to hold a licence. One side says this is on the parents and the household — if a minor is out on a bike at night three-up, someone handed over the keys or looked away. The other side says it's a systems failure — no real enforcement of pillion limits, no checkpoints outside Colombo, and police who wave bikes through unless there's a visible reason to stop them. Have you ever actually been stopped for riding two or three up, or seen someone get fined for it in your area? And do you think stricter checks would even change behaviour, or just push people onto worse roads where no one's watching? තුන් දෙනෙක් එකම බයිකයක ගියොත්, කාගේ වැරැද්දක්ද අනතුර වුණාම?