Cairo — Egypt's Interior Minister asserted on Tuesday the need to address road accidents with "unconventional" solutions and combat traffic problems within a legal framework.
Egypt is among the countries with the highest rates of road accidents in the world. According to official statistics, the economic cost of traffic accidents in 2015 was estimated at EGP 30.2 billion with the number of accidents reaching 14,500.
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