Four people died and 23 others were injured when a private car collided with a truck on the Qena-Sohag Road in Upper Egypt, according to Qena Governor Abdel Hamid al-Haggan.
Egypt has one of the world’s highest traffic-accident mortality rates.
In December, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said the number of car accidents during the first half of 2015 rose by 3.5 percent to a total of 6,916 accidents, compared with 6,685 accidents during the same period in 2014.
The number of deaths, however, decreased by 2.7 percent, from 3,025 to 2,808 deaths in the first half of 2015.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
