Fewer accidents, less noise: the police draw a positive balance

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Fewer accidents, less noise: the police draw a positive balance
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Fewer accidents, less noise: the police draw positive conclusions

Police in Hesse draw a positive balance
Less accidents, less noise

In southern Hesse, with the Odenwald as a classic motorcycle area, there were much fewer crashes with motorcycle participation in 2019 than in the previous year. The Hesse police also reported positive developments on the subject of motorcycle noise.


Michael Schumann

04/01/2020

The police had to move out 364 times in 2019 because of motorcycle accidents; In 2018 there were 448 accidents in the area, according to the local police headquarters in Darmstadt. By the end of November, five motorcyclists had lost their lives in accidents in southern Hesse – in 2018 it was 19. According to the authorities, the number of seriously and slightly injured people has also decreased significantly.

Positive development also in North Rhine-Westphalia

Police chief Bernhard Lammel mentioned this at a press conference “our intensive controls and various preventive measures” return. In total, his officials checked around 3,200 motorcycles in 2019, almost 2,000 more than in the previous year. In fact, in 2018, Hessen had equipped its police with a total of six civil surveillance motorcycles, which “Chasing reckless road users” do and also the “Increase the pressure in the motorcycle scene” should, according to the Hessian Ministry of the Interior in 2018.


Fewer accidents, less noise: the police draw a positive balance


Police Hesse.

Made “pressure in the motorcycle scene” in Hesse in 2018 and 2019: civilian police GS with GoPro camera and hidden blue light.

This has apparently also been successful when it comes to motorcycle noise. South Hesse’s police chief reported one “positive feedback from many parts of the population describing a significant improvement in the noise problem”. In North Rhine-Westphalia, too, the number of motorcyclists killed in accidents fell in 2019, but not as much as in South Hesse: In NRW in 2019, 60 bikers lost their lives in accidents – four fewer than in 2018. The total number of motorcycle accidents in NRW in 2019 11.6 percent down on the previous year.

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