The licence plate number of an Egyptian teenager’s vehicle featured the exact hour and date of his death in a road crash, according to his close friend.

Abdullah Zizou Slowa, who was only 18 years old at the time of his death, was involved in a fatal road accident on the Mahmoudia Axis road in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria at 9pm on 25th September.

The Egyptian newspaper Al Watan said the accident appeared to be written in the stars due to the victim’s car licence plate containing the hour and date of the teenager’s death.

Moody Munir, a close friend of the teen victim, was quoted by the newspaper as saying the licence plate foreshadowed “the date of the fatal accident”.

The victim’s licence plate read ‘CIA-9-25-9’ in Arabic, containing not only the date of Abdullah’s death, but even the exact hour.

Moody said the first ‘9’ represented the hour, the ‘25’ was the day, and the second ‘9’ signified the month of September, adding: “Your destiny was written on the Arabic tiger, my friend.”

No details of the accident were provided and it is unclear if there were any other casualties, however Sputnik news said the teenager’s vehicle was a complete write-off.

It is also unclear if the local authorities are investigating the accident.