CAIRO, Nov 18 (Aswat Masriya) -  Seven people were killed and four others were injured on Tuesday evening when two cars, one belonging to the police, collided on the Edfu desert road in Aswan governorate. 

Preliminary investigation cited speeding as the cause of the accident.

According to a report released by the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) in June, the number of car accidents occurring in Egypt in 2013 rose by 0.4 percent when compared to the 2012 figure.

Egypt's cabinet issued on November 5 a new legislation restricting trucks' traffic hours within cities to nighttime after a school bus crash on an agricultural road in Beheira left 18 killed.

The prosecutor general referred to trial on November 11 a truck driver and the school bus driver for being responsible for the crash.

Road accidents are a common occurrence in Egypt, being among the prime causes of death in the Arab world's most populous country.