Sri Lanka, April 17 -- There is a famous sticker displayed on motor cars. It reads 'Don't drink, drive and die'. But now we have to change it into 'Don't drink, drive, kill and die'. Thirteen road traffic accidents were reported from Sri Lanka on April 14 alone. Twenty three persons had died in road traffic accidents from 12th to 14th April. Six hundred people had perished in motorcar accidents within the first 100 days of this year. The total number of accidents that had taken place in the Southern Expressway during the past decade is 9,375, which had claimed 66 lives.

The media reported that most accidents that occurred during the New Year period were due to reckless driving. Among other causes were vehicles skidding in adverse weather...