A taxi carrying 14 passengers overturned at the Shubra-Banha road on Monday, killing three people and wounding nine others. Car accidents in Egypt rose by 17.8 percent in 2019, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced, with 9,992 car accidents compared to to 8,480 in 2018. In a report on accident rates, CAPMAS added that the number of car accident deaths rose to 3,484 in 2019 – an increase of 12.9 percent. The rate of car accidents increased to 27.4 accidents per day in 2019, it said. However, train accident deaths saw an increase to 42.4 deaths per 100 injured, compared to 34.3 deaths per 100 injured in 2018

Source: Egypt Independent September 14, 2020 13:07 UTC