5 killed, 39 injured in car collision on Alex. Desert Road

CAIRO - 3 December 2017: Four people were killed and 39 others were injured when 10 cars collided along Alexandria Desert Road on Sunday due to heavy mist.

The accident closed the road for few hours while the killed and injured people were transported to a nearby hospital.

The road and other highways in Cairo were shrouded in heavy mist since the early hours of Sunday.

On November 13, Nine people were injured as a result of a multi-vehicle crash of at least 20 cars on a newly constructed road in north of Cairo.

Thousands of Egyptians die on the road every year due to traffic accidents. Egypt recorded 14,710 traffic accidents in 2016, according to a statement by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS.)

Egypt is among the 10 states enrolled in a UN program that aims to half the rate of road deaths by 2020. Since 2014, Egypt launched a number of projects and campaigns to monitor road safety; including building new roads, maintaining dilapidated bridges and carrying out random drug tests on drivers.