Azbakeya court postpones driver's trial over girl's death
Cairo's criminal court postponed to 15 November 2026 the trial of a driver charged with running over and killing a girl crossing the road in Azbakeya under the influence of drugs. A forensic laboratory report found his urine and blood samples positive for ice and hashish.
Cairo’s criminal court postponed to 15 November 2026 the trial of a driver
charged with running over and killing a girl as she crossed the road in the
Azbakeya district.[1]The Public Prosecution charged him with negligent
homicide, reckless and negligent driving under the influence of narcotic
substances, and disregarding the laws and regulations governing traffic.[1]A
report by the Forensic Medicine Authority’s chemical laboratory found that urine
and blood samples taken from the accused tested positive for the narcotics ice
and hashish.[1]
Cairo police’s operations room received a report from residents of a road
accident with a fatality on the road in the Azbakeya district.[1]On
inspection, police found the body of a girl who had been hit by an unidentified
car as she crossed the road, which killed her on the spot, while the driver had
fled.[1]
Police seized the vehicle and took the necessary legal action against the
accused.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Charged
1
Deaths
1
Agencies
Cairo Criminal Court; Public Prosecution; Cairo Criminal Investigation Department
Agency type
Court, Prosecutor, Police
Cannabis
Hashish
Activity
Use
Setting
Vehicle
Charges
negligent homicide; reckless driving under the influence of narcotic substances; disregard for traffic laws and regulations
No date is given for the accident or for the prosecutor's referral to trial; 8 November 2026 is the date of the Al-Bawaba News postponement report and is used as the incident date.
The outcome of the trial scheduled for 15 November 2026 is not yet known.
The driver is not named in the reports, and the girl's identity is not given.
The ice and hashish found in the accused are recorded as forensic evidence of drug use; no seized cannabis quantity is reported.
The account rests on one postponement report, the Al-Bawaba News piece; the earlier referral and capture accounts are reproduced by several outlets as the same police statement.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in الدستور: Criminal investigation officers identified and seized the vehicle responsible for the accident and its driver, who admitted to the incident, explaining that he had fled the scene for fear of legal prosecution.
The Nasr City prosecution referred a housewife to criminal trial for trafficking in hashish and ice in the Second Nasr City police district. She was also charged with holding 5,000 Egyptian pounds said to be drug proceeds and a mobile phone used in the trade.
Cairo detectives arrested an unemployed man with a criminal record in the Marg district, seizing 13 kg of hashish, a shotgun with cartridges and cash on suspicion of drug trafficking. He was caught in a security ambush after a tip, and the case was referred to the Public Prosecution for investigation.
Cairo's criminal court at the Fifth Settlement reserved its verdict in the drug-trafficking trial of TikToker Mohamed Alaa, known as Ottaka, for 16 December after defence challenges to the search and the chain of custody. Prosecutors say he possessed about 400 grams of hashish and about 12 grams of cocaine for sale; he denies the charges.
Egypt's addiction-treatment fund said on 8 November 2026 that it had tested 4,510 school-bus drivers in the first two months of the school year and referred 28 who tested positive for hashish to prosecutors. On 26 October the same screening stood at 3,660 drivers tested and 21 hashish positives; the later total replaces that interim count.
