According to the most recent statistics by the country’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), there was a recorded 8,480 road accidents compared to 11,098 in 2017. In total, the number of accidents had dropped by 17.8 percent in a year’s time as per the report which was released on Sunday. The report also estimated that the cause of accidents was due to human error (76.8 percent), technical malfunctions (15.7 percent) and problems with the quality of roads and their maintenance (2.7 percent). As such, the number of road accidents, which are estimated to be one of the primary causes of death among youth under the age of 25 in Egypt, was lessened by an improvement in road infrastructure. The report however did stress on an increase of train accidents by 14 percent, reaching 20.44 in 2018, with one of the most tragic being of the recent incident at Cairo’s Ramses station. Although the Egyptian government has allocated a great sum into developing road networks, Egypt still struggles with an exhaustive traffic and driving problem. Many drivers do not abide by internationally recognized conventions of driving such as…
