The commercial bus flipped over on a highway in eastern Egypt that runs the coastal corridor of the Sinai Peninsula, and around 22 people, including 10 Jordanian passengers, died.
The transport had been on the way on a beautiful desert road joining the well-known tourist destinations in the Red Sea, that is, Dahab and Nuweiba, in the South Sinai governorate, when it lost control and turned over. According to emergency services reports, there were 43 people on the bus at the time of the accident, of whom 22 held Jordanian citizenship. Other than the known casualties, up to 28 people got injured, four of them critically.
In response to the emergency call, local health authorities dispatched 20 ambulances to the crash site to treat survivors and transport the injured to nearby regional hospitals. Visuals from the scene depicted severe structural destruction to the commercial bus, with personal belongings and debris scattered across the desert highway. Egyptian health authorities initially reported 16 fatalities before revising the official death toll upward to 22 as search and rescue operations concluded.
Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that several of its nationals were among the casualties. Official spokesperson Ambassador Fouad Majali stated that the diplomatic team from the Jordanian Embassy in Cairo was deployed to Nuweiba to oversee medical care for surviving citizens and coordinate the repatriation process for the deceased.
Although law enforcement agencies have not formally concluded their investigation into the cause of the disaster, local Egyptian media outlets reported that the bus overturned after suffering a sudden tire blowout. The highway connecting Dahab and Nuweiba serves as a vital transit corridor for international tourists, scuba divers, and local passengers traveling toward Nuweiba’s busy port facility.
Mass-casualty traffic incidents occur with high frequency across Egypt, where national statistics record thousands of road fatalities each year. Safety analysts consistently attribute the high death toll to excessive driving speeds, lax enforcement of traffic regulations, poor vehicle maintenance, and narrow or unpaved roadways. This tragedy marks another major fatal incident on Egyptian roads, following a collision near the Suez Canal city of Ismailia less than a month ago that left 18 people dead. Cario News Agency
