This report aims to monitor the incidents of road accidents in Egypt over a period of four years starting from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2017. During the given period, 11764 incidents were recorded and archived. In 2017, the year with the biggest record, the number of incidents reached 3312, incidents in 2016 amounted to 3041, while in 2015 number of 2747 incidents was documented, as recorded, 2014, had the minimum number of incidents amounted to 2664 incidents.
The geographical frame of the observatory is divided into two parts, the first for the governorates, incidents of each governorate are monitored separately, and the other for the regions. Also, regions are monitored separately. According to monitoring results, the highest rate of incidents has taken place in Behira with a total of 1155 cases, the governorate with the lowest was Luxor with only 121 accidents. For regions, Greater Cairo area had 2158 incidents, while Upper Egypt region was the lowest with 760 incidents.
According to road type classification, the largest number of incidents occurred on governorates internal roads with a total of 4247 incidents, followed by the desert road, which had a total of 1948 incidents. The agricultural road had 1243, the road to Upper Egypt had 1234, and the International coastal road had 1017.
The number of affected vehicles according to vehicles general classification reached 8774 for transportation vehicles, while the number of cargo vehicles was 4295, there were 3493 vehicles that could not be classified, 560 government vehicles, 2054 motorcycles and the lowest number 32 vehicles were classified as “other”.
According to the observatory, the classification of an “accident of two vehicles” recorded the largest number of incidents with a total of 5257 incidents, followed by the classification of “one-vehicle accident” with a total of 4885, an “accident of multiple vehicles” recorded 760 While the classification of a “Pedestrians hit by vehicle” recorded 554 incidents, which is the lowest number if we excluded 308 incidents classified under the name of “unspecified”.
For the type of incident classification, 6017 incidents were classified as “vehicle collisions”, recording the largest number, followed by a “vehicle roll-over” with a total of 4436 incidents, while “vehicle ignition” was the lowest number with only 24 incidents.
For the incidents without casualties in each province, the governorates of Cairo and Giza have had the majority of incidents, with 300 and 238 incidents, while the lowest number recorded in Luxor and Port Said with only 3 incidents.
For the type of incident classified according to road classification, “vehicle collision” and “vehicle roll-over” classifications are the most common, for example in the regional ring road recorded the largest number with 99 incidents, as well as, Greater Cairo ring road recorded 305 incidents, and the International coastal road recorded 515 incidents, While “vehicle roll-over” had the largest number in the classification of “other roads”, where Upper Egypt Road recorded 662 incidents, the road between two provinces, 168 incidents, and desert road 911 incidents.
The number of passenger vehicles reached 8774 vehicles, the largest number of which occurred on the desert road with a total of 1601 vehicles, followed by cargo vehicles with a total of 4295 vehicles, the largest number of which occurred within governorate internal roads with a total of 1291 vehicles.
In terms of the number of incidents by accident and general vehicles classification, the “accident for two vehicles” category, “passenger” vehicles ranked the largest number with 4517 passenger vehicles, 2578 transport vehicles, and 1576 motorcycles, while one vehicle accident recorded the largest number of 324 government vehicles.
For the total number of vehicles included in the monitoring, the number of private cars represented the largest number, with 5158 vehicles, followed by the cargo vehicles with 2323 vehicles, the lowest number was vehicles classified as Tricycle, such as tuk-tuk with 349 vehicles and 123 vehicles. As for motorcycles, There were 1582 motorcycles.
As for the annual casualties, 2014 had the highest rate with a total of 2797 deaths, while 2016 was the lowest with a total of 2369. The observatory also indicated that 2016 had the highest number of injuries with a total of 10833 injured, while 2017 was the lowest with a total of 10233 injured, and for the incidents without casualties, it reached 215 in 2014 and rose in 2017 to 228 incidents.
Monitoring the geographical track of the number of people affected by road accidents in Egypt during the period from 2014 to 2017, 52290 people were affected (42045 injured: 10245 died), Beheira governorate topped the largest number of deaths with a total of 1222 deaths, followed by Minya with a total of 750 deaths. As for injuries Beheira governorate had the largest number of cases with a total of 3697 followed by Minya governorate with a total of 3532 cases.
For the number of people affected by road classification, “road within the governorate” classification scored the highest number of casualties with a total of 12827 injuries, 3181 deaths, followed by “Desert Road” classification, with 8223 injuries and 1747 deaths. , The “Ring Road of Greater Cairo” was the least with a total of 670 injured, 233 deaths, followed by the Regional Ring Road with 668 casualties and 205 deaths.
For the type of incident, according to number of people affected, the number of people affected the most were in the “collision of vehicle” classification with a total of 27758 affected, divided into 21641 injured and 6117 dead, followed by the number, classification of vehicle rollover, a total of 20982 affected, divided into 17825 injured and 3175 dead. For incidents with the least number of people affected, classification of “Pedestrian Accidents” reached a total of 889 affected, were divided into 387 injured and 502 died. As for the classification of “unspecified collision” reached a total of 1243 affected, were divided into 1054 injured and 189 died and the classification of “vehicle ignition” had the lowest total with only 12 people affected.
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