Traffic accident statistics 2016

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Traffic accident statistics 2016
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Traffic accident statistics 2016

Traffic accident statistics 2016
More accidents, fewer deaths

Although there were more traffic accidents again in 2016, fewer people were killed in traffic accidents as a result.

Michael Schumann, Dina Dervisevic

02/24/2017

Although 2016 was the year with the highest number of road accidents since German reunification, according to the Federal Statistical Office, the number of people killed on the road, at 3,214, is lower than it has been in 60 years – a decrease of 7.1 percent compared to 2015. The number of motorcyclists and scooter drivers killed even fell by 15.7 percent in 2016, 98 fewer than in the previous year. “The number of road deaths thus reached the lowest level in more than 60 years. The number of injuries rose by 0.8% to around 396,700 in 2016 compared to the previous year.”, so the information from the Federal Statistical Office on February 24, 2017.

According to statisticians from Wiesbaden, on the other hand, the number of fatalities among drivers of two-wheelers with small license plates, including many pedelecs, has risen slightly. Five more road users than in the previous year were killed in accidents. Cyclists also recorded an increase in this statistic: 4.3 percent, that is 15 more cyclists killed than in 2015.


Traffic accident statistics 2016


Federal Office of Statistics

Road traffic accidents in 2016: fatalities and accidents by country.

In total, the police recorded around 2.6 million traffic accidents in the previous year, which is 2.8 percent more than in 2015. In 2.3 million accidents, property damage remained, while 308,200 accidents resulted in injuries or death.

Overall, there were fewer road fatalities in 2016, but the statistics are different in individual federal states: Bavaria, Berlin, Hamburg, Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein recorded more road fatalities than in 2015. In North Rhine-Westphalia, the number of road fatalities remained the same in the remaining ten Federal states it sank. Baden-Wuerttemberg recorded the strongest decline with -16.1 percent (-78 people).

Source: Federal Statistical Office

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