CAIRO: Sixteen Egyptian soldiers were injured in a bus accident early Monday in South Sinai on the international road, Youm7 reported.
The ambulance service transferred nine injured soldiers to Tor General Hospital and seven to Abu-Redes Hospital to receive the needed medical assistance after their bus overturned.
The, soldiers’ injuries are minor and will be released from the hospital soon, MENA reported.
Road safety in Egypt is of a great concern. According to a report issued by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) in April 2015, an average of 17 people died per day in road accidents in Egypt in 2014.
A total of 14,403 road accidents took place in Egypt in 2014, 7.5 percent less than in 2013, according to the report.
Human error caused 59.2 percent of all 2014 road accidents, while 19.3 percent were caused by technical failure, the report said.
A 2011 report by CAPMAS showed that Egypt has the Middle East’s highest road fatality rate.
Laws regulating seatbelt and alcohol testing have been recently issued to reduce road accidents plaguing the Arab world’s most populous country, but the rate of road accidents does not indicate that these laws are enough nor are properly enforced.