Egypt’s Interior Ministry said its traffic campaigns recorded 104,237 violations in 24 hours on roads across the country.[1] The main offences were driving without a licence, speeding, parking at random, using a mobile phone at the wheel and breaching licence conditions.[1] The same campaigns tested 1,045 drivers and 44 were positive for narcotics use.[1] Al-Masry Al-Youm said the figures came from an Interior Ministry statement issued on the Tuesday.[2] Cairo 24 reported the same nationwide figures and said security bodies had tested 1,045 drivers, with 44 positive for narcotics.[3] Dar El-Hilal reported the same 104,000 and 237 violations and 44 positive drug-use cases among the drivers tested.[4] Sawt gave the same nationwide totals and said 1,045 drivers had been tested with 44 positive for narcotics.[5]
A parallel campaign on work zones along the Regional Ring Road recorded 472 violations in the same 24 hours.[1] Those violations covered carrying passengers against the rules, licence conditions and vehicle safety requirements.[1] Officers tested 156 drivers there and seven were positive for narcotics.[1] Seven people wanted under nine court rulings were detained.[1] Five vehicles were held for traffic offences.[1] Cairo 24 reported the same 156 drivers tested, seven positive tests and seven detainees held under nine rulings.[3] Dar El-Hilal reported the same Regional Ring Road figures, including five vehicles held for traffic offences.[4] Sawt reported the same Regional Ring Road figures of 156 drivers tested and seven positives.[5] The ministry said the required legal measures had been taken in the recorded cases.[1]
The accounts describe the positive tests only as use of narcotic substances and do not name which drug was involved.[2] The campaign formed part of the Interior Ministry’s continuing traffic enforcement on roads and highways across Egypt.[1]