A total of 16,000 people were killed and 60,000 others injured in road accidents in Egypt during the first 9 months of 2016, Samy Mokhtar, head of the Egyptian Association for the Care of Road Accident Victims and their families said on Monday.
In a phone call with CBC satellite channel, Mokhtar called for making tough legislations to address the disaster and guarantee the rights of the victim’s families.
Mokhtar praised the new amendments approved by President Abdel Fatah al Sisi on traffic law in November last year and asserted that the new amendments “should have included tougher punishment for driving without license.”
According to a 2015 report issued by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS,) 14,500, road accidents took place in Egypt in 2015 causing 6,203 fatalities, 15,847 severe injuries and 3,479 light injuries.
