Originally Posted by TeaAddict
Travelling in Egypt, one of the safer parts of the Middle East, may be a different kind of risk than the ones we take every day, but it's certainly not more dangerous than getting on a domestic air flight -- something I assume most people on this board do quite often.
I'll take a domestic air flight over crossing a busy intersection in Cairo on foot and/or a taxi ride to the airport anyday, thank you very much. One of the nastier things I've seen in my life was a black BMW wrapped around a utility pole near Heliopolis, including some parts of the owner...
Googled stats: Egypt has 1.875 fatalities per thousand vehicles, the USA has 0.190. That added up to 4,400 deaths in 1994, and I very much doubt things have gotten better since... so why are you worrying about 5 or even 30 deaths in a year?