Here's the disturbing CCTV footage of Kusal Mendis' car crash

Sri Lanka’s wicketkeeper-batsman Kusal Mendis was arrested after he hit a 64-year-old cyclist near the country’s capital Colombo. The fatal accident took place on Sunday morning at 5 am in Panadura, just south of Colombo. The accident resulted in the cyclist’s death before he could be admitted to a hospital.

Mendis was immediately taken into police custody for further investigation. Police media unit confirmed the news of Kusal being involved in a fatal accident. Though the police have not revealed if the local resident or Mendis was under the influence of alcohol. The 25-year-old would be presented before the Panadura Magistrate within the next 48 hours while police conduct an investigation.

After a few hours of the incident, Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror released the CCTV footage of the brutal accident. The video shows Mendis’ car traveling down a narrow road and colliding with the local cyclist. In the end, the clip also features the damage done to Kusal’s car and the cycle due to the clash.

Sharing the clip of the accident, Daily Mirror wrote, “Cricketer Kusal Mendis was arrested following an accident involving his vehicle that killed a man at Horethuduwa, Panadura early this morning.”

Here’s the CCTV footage of the fatal car crash

Cricketer Kusal Mendis was arrested following an accident involving his vehicle that killed a man at Horethuduwa, Panadura early this morning #DailyMirror #NewsUpdates #lka #SriLanka pic.twitter.com/BgeF56fizf

— DailyMirror (@Dailymirror_SL) July 5, 2020

Kusal Mendis’s cricket career

The middle-order batsman has represented Sri Lanka in 44 Tests, 76 ODIs, and 26 T20Is scoring 2995 runs, 2164 runs, and 484 runs respectively. Kusal has also smashed 28 half-centuries in international cricket.

Mendis was supposed to play the two-match Test series against England in March 2020. However, the series was canceled in the wake of the novel coronavirus outbreak. The batsman was also a part of Sri Lanka’s squad which resumed training after the lockdown was eased in the country.

However, this is not the first time a Sri Lankan cricketer has been involved in a car accident. In 2003, former leg-spinner Kaushal Lokuarchchi was sentenced to jail for a period of four years. The bowler had crashed his car into a pedestrian resulting in her death. Also, the reports suggest that road accidents kill around three thousand people every year in the island nation.