22 April 2024 08:29 am Views - 742
By Sheain Fernandopulle, Prasad Rukmal & P. D. De Silva
The Fox Hill Super Cross 2024 racing event, held in Diyatalawa, turned tragic yesterday (21) as a race car veered off the track, resulting in the deaths of seven individuals, including an 8-year-old child, and leaving 21 others hospitalized with injuries.
Police Media Spokesperson DIG Nihal Thalduwa stated that the accident occurred when the race car lost control and collided with a group of spectators.
The injured were rushed to the Diyatalawa Base Hospital.
According to hospital sources, the condition of some of the injured is critical.
Bandarawela Acting Magistrate Seneviratne Weerasinghe conducted the magisterial examination of the seven people who died in the car accident at the Diyatalawa Base Hospital last afternoon (21).
He went to the scene of the accident, recorded the observations, and then conducted the magisterial examination by examining the dead bodies in the Diyatalawa Hospital.
The Acting Magistrate ordered the police to perform the autopsy of the bodies by the Forensic Medical Officer of Diyatalawa Hospital and submit the medical reports to the court.
The 28th edition of the Fox Hill Super Cross, organized by the Sri Lanka Military Academy Diyatalawa in collaboration with Sri Lanka Automobile Sports (SLAS), commenced in Diyatalawa on Sunday, April 21.
The list of those who died in the Diyatalawa Fox Hill car accident is as follows:
1. R. Abeynayaka: Army soldier (Embilipitiya)
2. Ganesh Jayawardana (Matara)
3. Aruna Shantha Upali Gamage (Matara)
4. Ashen Hinatigala (Matara)
5. Udayakumara (Dayrabaa Junction, Mirahawatta)
6. Dhanushika, 8 years old (Dayrabaa Junction, Mirahawatta)
7. Chaminda Niroshan, 19 years old (Seeduwa)