Two people were killed and 16 others were injured late Saturday when a microbus turned over on the highway between Qena and Sohag.
The driver lost control of the vehicle due to driving too fast, Qena security said.
Egypt has one of the world’s highest traffic-accident mortality rates.
In December, the government’s 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
