Fatal road accidents in Egypt remain high despite infrastructure improvements
While the government’s spending of billions of dollars to develop roads and the transportation infrastructure have reduced accidents in recent years, Egypt still ranks among the top nations in the world for traffic deaths.
CAIRO — Egyptian authorities announced April 21 that one Egyptian national had died and two others were injured in a collision between a tourist bus and a private car on the Qena-Luxor agricultural road. Meanwhile, 38 Polish tourists made it out alive.
This accident came shortly after an even deadlier collision occurred in southern Egypt. On March 13, the Egyptian Ministry of Health announced that 10 people were killed and 14 others injured in a crash between a bus and car on the Abu Simbel-Aswan road.
Media reports indicated that among the 10 deaths, four people were French and one was Belgian, in addition to five Egyptians. Social media users circulated videos showing that the tourist bus caught fire on the Aswan road.
On April 19, Gamal al-Saeed, a member of the parliamentary Transport and Communications Committee, submitted a motion addressing Minister of Transport Kamel al-Wazir and Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled al-Anani regarding the March 13 accident.
