CAIRO (AP) – A vehicle accident involving an overturned microbus in southern Egypt killed at least nine people and injured eight, authorities said Saturday. The crash took place Friday when the passenger vehicle overturned following a tire blowout on a highway in Minya province 273 kilometers (170 miles) south of the capital Cairo, provincial authorities said in a statement. The microbus, a sort of mass transit minivan, was transporting people from Sohag province to Cairo, the statement said. Deadly traffic accidents claim thousands of lives every year in Egypt, which has a poor transportation safety record. The crashes and collisions are mostly caused by speeding, bad roads or poor enforcement of traffic laws.