Sri Lanka, April 14 -- A total of five fatalities, including the death of a toddler, has been reported due to separate road accidents in various parts of the island.

The accidents were reported from Maho, Manampitiya, Balangoda and Silawathura yesterday, Police said.

A couple had died when a speeding van veered off the road and rammed onto a tree on the side of the Anuradhapura-Padeniya road in Maho.

The deceased, a 56-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman, were residents of Weliweriya.

Meanwhile, in Rukmalkandura in the Balangoda Police Division, the driver of a lorry ran over a male child while attempting to reverse a lorry that was parked opposite a house.

Police said the child, who sustained serious injuries, succumbed upon admiss...