Tourist killed in a bus crash

      In Egypt a tour bus carrying 47 passengers crashes head on with a truck near the Red Sea Resort. Ibrahim Hassan, head of emergency services, for the southern part of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, says of the 12 fatalities 5 were Egyptian citizens. The other 7 were citizens from the Neitherlands, Russia and the Ukraine.

Hassan didn’t give the time or the cause of the accident

Egypt has a history of alarming amounts of vehicular crashes, due to negligent driving, speeding and terrible road conditions.

In January of 2006, six Australian tourists were killed when their tour bus rolled on a highway near the capital of Cairo.

According to 2006 statistics at least 8,000 people were killed in accident. These were the most recent stasistics that were provided.

If this isn’t a story that makes you say hmmmmm.

First off, I just don’t believe that all these accidents were actually “accidents”.

OK, you have this country Egypt, like many countries in the world has a rich culture and will attract tourist, Why? Can you say the Egyptian Pyramids?. So this country makes lots of money in tourist currency alone. Not to mention that it has resources that other countries need. You mean to tell me that their cheap ass government can’t put that money into their roads. Now I am not the keenest when it comes to government and politics. I can’t possibly imagine what these leaders today go through to govern a country, but I do believe that the job is to provide for your countrymen. Sufficent roads is a start.

Considering all the fatalities, enough is enough. What are the police doing about speeding on hazerdous streets? I mean 8,000 lives gone, that’s 8,000 families that are mourning. That statistic was in 2006. I have a hunch that that number has risen recently. This is a tragic and sad case. What is more sad it seems as if  Egyptian leaders could care less.