Three people were killed and 15 others were injured in a car accident on the Sohag-Red Sea highway in Sohag in Upper Egypt on Wednesday morning, Ahram Arabic website reported. According to Sohag security directorate, a microbus crashed in to a taxi due to high speed killing its driver and passengers. The victims were all residents of Nagea Hammadi in Qena governorate. The injured were transferred to Akhamim central hospital, Sohag University Hospital and Sohag General Hospital. Deadly road crashes take place on a near-daily basis in Egypt, which is notorious for poor road safety conditions, badly maintained infrastructure and loosely enforced traffic regulations. In 2015, a total 14,548 road accidents were recorded by Egypt's official statistics agency.