Cairo, June 27 (Reporter) At least 18 people were killed, and four others injured on Friday when a lorry crashed with a microbus on a highway in Egypt's northern Menoufia Governorate, according to local media. The Dostor news website quoted a medical source as saying that the victims ranged in age from five to 18, most of whom come from the village of Kafr Sanabisah. Following the accident, the health directorate in Menoufia declared a state of emergency in all the governmental hospitals in the governorate. Initial investigations attributed the accident to the high speed of the microbus when it was trying to take a U-turn from a narrow lane in front of the lorry. Despite recent government efforts to expand and modernize Egypt's road network, fatal accidents remain common, largely due to unsafe driving practices and poor road conditions...////...