Cairo: At least 14 people were killed and 42 others injured, after a bus collided with truck carrying poultry on Eastern Desert Road around midnight last night. Seven of those injured are in critical condition
The collison occurred in the Bani Swaif governorate, while en-rout from Cairo to the Minya governorate in Upper Egypt Preliminary investigations into the accident found that the bus was speeding, causing it to fall from a bridge connecting Cairo- Bani Swaif Road to Bani Swaif- Minya Road.
The bus flipped and fell 6 meters, and thus landed on a pick-up truck loaded with chicken.
The spokesperson for the Health Ministry, Khaled Megahed, said that 23 ambulances were rushed to the scene, and that the first crew arrived at 12:40 am. He explained the corpses were transferred to the morgue at Bani Swaif General Hospital. Megahed stated the injuries ranged between post-concussion, fractures and bruises, all injured were referred to Bani Swaif General Hospital. One of the victims of the accident was Hassan Morsi, the son of the bus driver. Masry Al-Youm interviewed him in the hospital.
He defended his late father who died during the accident. He said that his father was an experienced driver, and he loved to travel with him. He added that he caught the bus at the last minute from Cairo to celebrate the Eid al-Adha in Minya.
"My father was not asleep (while driving). He has been a driver for a long time. This is not his first trip from Cairo to Minya.
He is a first-class driver and he has worked for Upper Egypt Transport Company since the 1990s," Morsi said.