Two people were killed in a collision on a coastal highway north of Cairo late on Tuesday, Ahram Arabic news website reported, the latest in near daily road accidents.

The accident occured when a truck collided with a tractor on a main road north of the Nile Delta governorate of Kafr El-Sheikh, about 130 km (80 miles) north of Cairo.

The collision is the latest in near daily road crashes that claim thousands of lives every year in the North African country-- notorious for poor road safety and loosely enforced traffic regulations.

‪In its latest report in April, the country's census authority stated that over 14,400 road accidents occurred in Egypt in 2014, killing more than 6,200 people and injuring over 25,000 others.