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| Sunday, 6 January 2002 |
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Rare case of an avoidable death This is a story which demonstrates how fate was destined to kill a person and how it 'chased' behind that person and completed the deed. Mrs. Doreen Kulandaivelu (40) was the principal of Serikalmunai Maha Vidyalayam in Kalmunai. She was in the habit of riding back and forth from her home at Pandiruppu to her school in her motorcycle. On Thursday afternoon when she was returning home her saree got entangled in the rear wheel of the motorcycle and she fell off the motorcycle and sustained serious injuries. People in the vicinity despatched her to the Kalmunai hospital in a three wheeler. However, half way to the hospital the engine of the three wheeler stalled. She was then transferred to another three wheeler but that too got stalled a few miles from the hospital. By this time considerable time was lost, and her condition became worse. However, she was put in a passing car and admitted to the Kalmunai hospital. As her condition was very bad, Kalmunai hospital authorities despatched her in an ambulance to the Batticaloa general hospital. the ambulance which was travelling at high speed with the sirens on collided with a van coming in the opposite direction at a place called Marudamunai. five persons including the driver of the ambulance and two others who accompanied the injured principal were seriously injured, while the principal's condition took a turn to the worse. All were then transferred in another vehicle to the Batticaloa general hospital. On admission the principal was found dead, while the rest are now warded in a serious condition. Mrs. Kulandaivelu has three children and her husband is employed in London. |
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