Twenty-one people were killed and 19 others wounded in two separate road crashes outside Cairo on Sunday, the worst traffic accidents in weeks, security and health officials said.
One of the accidents occurred when a microbus traveling on a highway linking the capital Cairo to the Mediterranean city of Alexandria collided with a truck carrying construction materials, killing 10 people and injuring eight others, a senior provincial security official told state news agency MENA.
The accident took place near Wadi Al Natroun province, about 125 kilometres (77 miles) from Cairo.
Thousands die and tens of thousands are injured every year in car crashes in Egypt, notorious for its poor road safety record and loosely enforced traffic regulations.
Earlier on Sunday, 11 people were killed when a bus overturned on a motorway in the Red Sea resort town of Hurghada (approximately 500 kilometers southeast of Cairo), Hossam Gamil, director of ambulance services for the Red Sea governorate told Ahram Arabic.
He said at least 11 others were injured in the collision.
In its latest report in April, the country's census authority said that over 14,400 road accidents occurred in Egypt in 2014, killing more than 6,200 people and injuring some 25,154 others.
Late in May, sixteen people, all but three of them policemen, were killed in a collision in Beni Suef, south of Cairo.
