An 18-year-old boy has died in an accident between a motorcycle and a tipper truck at the Weligampitiya Junction in the Kandana area this afternoon.
The Police said three persons without helmets had been travelling on the motorcycle at the time of the incident.
The motorcycle which had plied from Weligampitiya to the Colombo- Negombo Road had failed to heed the orders of the Police to stop and had proceeded to the main road from the Weligampitiya Junction.
At the time, a tipper truck that was travelling from Negombo had collided with the motorcycle.
The pillion riders of the motorcycle, which had been travelling without a back licence plate number, had fled the area following the accident.
The rider of the motorcycle, an 18-year-old resident of Weligampitiya, had died in the accident. The Kandana Police is conducting investigations into the incident. (Newswire)
