Posted By: John Steele

CAIRO (Reuters) - Eighteen Egyptians were killed when a
public bus and a truck collided on Tuesday on a highway south
of the Egyptian capital, security sources said.
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Another 16 people were injured in the early morning crash,
the latest in a series of deadly Egyptian transport accidents
that have sparked public anger at what critics call the
government's failure to enforce safety standards.

The sources said the bus was carrying passengers from the
southern city of Assiut to Cairo when it collided with a truck
traveling in the same direction. The impact caused the bus to
overturn.

Reckless driving and the poor condition of roads are blamed
for many road crashes in Egypt. Dozens of people have been
killed in a recent spate of rail and road crashes.

In the deadliest such incident, 58 people were killed in
the Nile Delta town of Qalyoub in August when two commuter
trains collided in Egypt's worst rail accident in four years.

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