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CAIRO, 30 January 2013 (IRIN): Egypt should invest more in modernizing its roads and railways if it wants to bring down the shockingly high number of accidents and fatalities.
Transport Minister Hatem Abdelatif stunned the nation on 13 January when he revealed that road accidents kill as many as 10.000 people every year. (Arabic).
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates road accident fatalities (dødsulykker) to be even more, at 12.000 a year.
Egypt has a road traffic fatality rate of 42 per every 100.000 people, compared with 5,2 per 100.000 in Sweden, 7,2 in Finland and 25,2 in Russia, WHO says.
Transport experts have said that Egypt’s road network needed redesigning, with more markings and better lighting, and traffic rules needed to be enforced.
“We are in dire need to overhaul everything, including the policies,” Khalid Abdel Azeem Abbas, head of the National Institute of Transport, told IRIN.
By investing in road and railway safety, experts said, the government would save some of the billions of Egyptian pounds it spends each year treating accident victims and replacing vehicles, trains and track.
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