Four people were killed in three separate accidents on a motorway connecting Cairo to southern governorates on Wednesday, Al-Ahram’s Arabic news website reported.
Two men were killed in an after-dawn crash involving five vehicles near Beni Suef, 100 km (62 miles) south of Cairo.
Three of the survivors were injured shortly after when another collision hit their car as it stood parked on the side of the road.
Egypt is notorious for its unsafe roadways. Near daily traffic accidents, often caused by poorly maintained roads and loosely enforced traffic regulations, claim thousands of lives yearly.
In a separate accident a few kilometres away, two others were killed and four injured when four vehicles including a truck collided.
The accidents were reportedly caused by foggy weather.
Ambulances rushed to the scene to transfer the injured to a hospital in Beni Suef.
Last week, 18 people were killed when a bus packed with high school students collided with three other vehicles in Lower Egypt, prompting the government to introduce amendments to a traffic law that set harsher punishments for traffic violations.
Days earlier, at least ten female university students were killed in a collision in Sohag, in Upper Egypt.
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