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🚨 General Road Accidents Severity: Moderate 📍 Teripah - Nildandahinna Road, Walapane, Nuwara Eliya

S.L.T.B. came to tow the student bus that suffered a technical fault in Walapane area. The front axle and the wheel pair of the industrial service bus came off and there was an accident

වලපනේ ප්‍රදේශයේදී කාර්මික දෝෂයකට ලක්වූ සිසු සැරිය බස් රථය ඇදගෙන යාමට පැමිණි S.L.T.B. කාර්මික සේවා බස් රථයේ ඉදිරිපස ඇක්සලය සහ රෝද යුගලය ගැලවී අනතුරක්

📅 Oct 12, 2026, 3:57 PM • ✍️ Accident 1st Editorial Desk • 👁️ 34 views
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S.L.T.B. came to tow the student bus that suffered a technical fault in Walapane area. The front axle and the wheel pair of the industrial service bus came off and there was an accident
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🚨 Sri Langama 'Sisu Sariya' bus, which was running from Valapane, Theripah to Nildandahinna in Nuwara Eliya District, stopped on the road today (10/12/2026) due to a sudden mechanical failure. In order to take the disabled bus to the depot after the accident, a red colored bus belonging to SLTB Breakdown Service has arrived and started towing it. While being towed on the narrow mountain road, the front main axle and the pair of wheels came off the body and stopped in the middle of the road due to the failure of the front leaf springs and the nails holding the axle of the industrial service bus. ​Fortunately, the bus was driven at a low speed while being towed, and no one was injured, but the narrow road was completely blocked, causing severe disruption to traffic in the area. ​"Photographs of this accident are published to help create a society free from road accidents through safe driving." ​📷 Photo Credit: Walapane Theripehe Facebook Page (Accident 1st Community Network)

🚨 Sri Langama 'Sisu Sariya' bus, which was running from Valapane, Theripah to Nildandahinna in Nuwara Eliya District, stopped on the road today (10/12/2026) due to a sudden mechanical failure. In order to take the disabled bus to the depot after the accident, a red colored bus belonging to SLTB Breakdown Service has arrived and started towing it. While being towed on the narrow mountain road, the front main axle and the pair of wheels came off the body and stopped in the middle of the road due to the failure of the front leaf springs and the nails holding the axle of the industrial service bus. ​Fortunately, the bus was driven at a low speed while being towed, and no one was injured, but the narrow road was completely blocked, causing severe disruption to traffic in the area. ​"Photographs of this accident are published to help create a society free from road accidents through safe driving." ​📷 Photo Credit: Walapane Theripehe Facebook Page (Accident 1st Community Network) Road Safety Lesson (Road Safety Lesson and Investigation) Towing Dynamics & Suspension Stress: When towing a disabled heavy passenger bus on a hilly road, the towing vehicle's rear chassis and front axle system are subjected to a tremendous traction force (Dynamic Tractive Load). If the front leaf springs, U-bolts and chassis mounts are in poor condition, the axle can come off completely. Technical fitness of service vehicles (Maintenance of Breakdown Recovery Vehicles): Industrial service vehicles used to rescue or tow other vehicles must be in maximum mechanical maintenance. Buses that are years old should have their chassis and suspension systems properly tested before being used for such high-stress jobs. ​Safe Towing Measures on Narrow Mountain Roads: While the use of Rigid Tow Bar is appreciated while towing vehicles on mountain roads, maximum safe speed limits and attention of support staff are mandatory due to deep slopes on both sides. Call 119 or 1990 immediately in case of emergency road accident.
​🚨 නුවරඑළිය දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ වලපනේ, තෙරිපැහැ සිට නිල්දණ්ඩාහින්න දක්වා ධාවනය වෙමින් තිබූ ශ්‍රී ලංගම 'සිසු සැරිය' බස් රථයක් හදිසි කාර්මික දෝෂයකට ලක්වීම හේතුවෙන් අද (2026/10/12) උදෑසන මාර්ගයේ නතර වී තිබිණි. ​අනතුරුව එම අක්‍රිය වූ බස් රථය ඩිපෝව වෙත රැගෙන යාම සඳහා වලපනේ ඩිපෝවට අයත් ලංගම කාර්මික සේවා (SLTB Breakdown Service) රතු පැහැති බස් රථයක් පැමිණ එය ඇදගෙන යාමේ කටයුතු (Towing) ආරම්භ කර තිබේ. එලෙස පටු කඳුකර මාර්ගයේ ඇදගෙන යමින් සිටියදී, අනපේක්ෂිත ලෙස කාර්මික සේවා බස් රථයේ ඉදිරිපස දුනු පත් (Leaf Springs) සහ ඇක්සලය රඳවා තිබූ ඇණ ගැලවී යාමෙන් ඉදිරිපස ප්‍රධාන ඇක්සලය හා රෝද යුගලය සහමුලින්ම බඳෙන් ගැලවී ගොස් මාර්ගය මැද නතර වීමෙන් මෙම අකරතැබ්බය සිදුවිය. ​වාසනාවකට මෙන් ඇදගෙන යන අවස්ථාවේ අඩු වේගයකින් ධාවනය වීම නිසා බස් රථය ප්‍රපාතයකට පෙරළී යාමක් හෝ කිසිදු පුද්ගල තුවාල ලැබීමක් සිදු නොවූ නමුත්, පටු මාර්ගය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම අවහිර වීමෙන් ප්‍රදේශයේ ගමනාගමනයට දැඩි බාධා එල්ල විය. ​"ආරක්ෂාකාරී රිය පැදවීමක් තුලින් මාර්ග අනතුරු වලින් තොර සමාජයක් බිහිකිරිමට, මෙම අනතුරෙහි ඡායාරූප විමසා බලා සිහියේ තබා ගැනීමට උපකාරීවනු පිණිස පලකරනු ලැබේ." ​📷 ඡායාරූප ස්තූතිය: Walapane Theripehe ෆේස්බුක් පිටුව (Accident 1st Community Network) Road Safety Lesson (මාර්ග ආරක්ෂණ පාඩම සහ විමර්ශනය) ​බර වාහන ඇදගෙන යාමේදී යෙදෙන අතිරේක තෙරපුම (Towing Dynamics & Suspension Stress): අක්‍රිය වූ බරැති මගී බස් රථයක් කඳුකර බෑවුම් සහිත මාර්ගයක ඇදගෙන යාමේදී (Towing), ඇදගෙන යන වාහනයේ පසුපස චැසියට සහ ඉදිරිපස ඇක්සල් පද්ධතියට අතිවිශාල කම්පන බලයක් (Dynamic Tractive Load) එල්ල වේ. ඉදිරිපස දුනු පත් (Leaf Springs), U-බෝල්ට් (U-Bolts) සහ චැසි සවි කිරීම් දුර්වල තත්ත්වයේ පැවතියහොත් මෙලෙස ඇක්සලය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම ගැලවී යා හැක. ​සේවා රථවල කාර්මික යෝග්‍යතාව (Maintenance of Breakdown Recovery Vehicles): වෙනත් වාහන මුදාගැනීමට හෝ ඇදගෙන යාමට යොදවන කාර්මික සේවා රථ උපරිම යාන්ත්‍රික නඩත්තුවක පැවතිය යුතුය. වසර ගණනාවක් පැරණි බස් රථ මෙවැනි දැඩි ආතතීන්ට නිරාවරණය වන කාර්යයන් සඳහා යෙදවීමට පෙර ඒවායේ චැසි හා දුනු පද්ධති නිසි පරීක්ෂාවකට ලක්කළ යුතුය. ​පටු කඳුකර මාර්ගවල ආරක්ෂිත ඇදගෙන යාමේ පියවර: කඳුකර මාර්ගවල වාහන ඇදගෙන යාමේදී ටෝ බාර් (Rigid Tow Bar) යෙදීම අගය කළ යුතු වුවද, දෙපස ගැඹුරු ප්‍රපාත පවතින බැවින් උපරිම ආරක්ෂිත වේග සීමාවන් සහ සහයක කාර්යමණ්ඩල අවධානය අනිවාර්ය වේ. හදිසි මාර්ග ආපදාවකදී වහාම 119 හෝ 1990 අමතන්න.
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