What the records say
- When
- 27 Apr 2005
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 7.32° N, 80.28° E
- Description
- 2005 railway accident in Sri Lanka
Polgahawela level crossing accident
2005 railway accident in Sri Lanka
The Polgahawela level crossing accident was a collision between a bus travelling from Galkiriyagama to Colombo and a train at a level crossing in Yangalmodara, near Polgahawela in Kurunegala district on 27 April 2005 at 8:30 local time, which resulted in the death of 41 people.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In central Sri Lanka, at Polgahawela, a passenger train crashes into a bus on a level crossing; 35–50 persons are feared to be dead”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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