Pedelec accident statistics 2018

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Pedelec boom leads to accidents – bike rails could improve situation

Pedelec accident statistics 2018-environmentally harmful variant bicycle Originally

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Pedelecs – Bicycles with electrical support – are an absolute bestseller and show that electrical two-wheeled mobility has enormous potential. But the boom also has shadow sides, especially in older drivers. Can help high-speed routes?

While the total number of road deaths in Germany fell in 2017, more pedelec drivers have been killed in accidents than in the previous year. 68 E-Radler came to the ADAC by life, 9.7 percent more than 2016. Most of the victims was 70 years or older. Overall, in 2017 in Germany, 3180 people in road traffic accidents came to life, 0.8 percent less than in the previous year.

Acceleration is getting used to

The automotive club is reminiscent of the specific risks of Pedelecs in view of rising accidents: even if they look like bicycles, speed up significantly faster. Handling wants to be trained. One reason for the increase in victim numbers is the growing proliferation of pedelecs. At the beginning of the year 2017, the bicycles with electric drive were present according to the Federal Statistical Office in 2.3 million households. This corresponds to a share of 6.1 percent. Thus, the number of private households with motorized bicycles has almost doubled in the last three years.

What is actually an e-bike?

  • Pedelecs 25 (Support up to 25 km / h maximum engine power 250 watts), are legally bicycles, so can actually drive on cycling trails)
  • S-Pedelecs (Support up to 45 km / h, are legally motor vehicles, may be on cycle paths not Driving, because bike paths are designed at speeds up to 25 km / h)
  • Elektro-Mofas (also automotive vehicles, accelerate – without kicking, with gas lever – up to 25 km / h, may drive out of bike paths if there is a corresponding additional sign "mopfas free")

Own bike paths for pedelecs?

One possible solution for the problem is in cycle paths – the first way of this kind in Germany is built in the Ruhr area (RS1). Here Pedelec pilots can drive without being disturbed by cars, slower wheels or pedestrians. In the final expansion until 2020, the bike motorway is to be 101 kilometers long and run between the cities of Duisburg and Hamm across the Ruhr area. However, the plans were delayed, according to a report of the WDR, last. Block speed paths are also planned in other cities, for example in Munich. the "Bicycle highway" should connect the Munich north to the main train station and thus become a better alternative for commuters who do not want to commute to the car or public transport.

Bicycle highways in China

In China, a few months ago, the car maker BMW presented the vision of a covered high-motorway for e-bikes. In China, pedestrian trails and streets are structurally strongly separated, which relieves the test of autonomous vehicles. Quick Railways Only for electrical bikes could be used as another building block – and relieve the enormous road traffic.

SV / with Material of SP-X

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8 thoughts on “Pedelec accident statistics 2018”

  1. false concept
    The Pedelec is the extremely environmentally harmful variant of the bicycle. Originally than for the … The Pedelec is the extremely environmentally harmful variant of the bicycle. Originally intended as support for in particular older people who are hardly able to drive with a bike, unfortunately, it has spread far too strongly on the crowd. Hardly any of these casual drivers would drive 25km / h with a real bike and thus reaches speeds that overwhelm him on the wheel. The doseability of the power is not as manageable as the drive with muscle power, especially for older and inexperienced drivers. If you are looking for mobility without effort, no bike needs. Who wants to move environmentally friendly and / or with a sporting activity does not need a motor.

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  2. We have traffic chaos…
    … On the streets and traffic jam everywhere. Now the best the streets should be locked or rebuilt for cyclists… Are you crazy??? For what we pay for car tax and usury taxes for fuel??? Green-Green Germany Oh Jeeee….

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  3. Individual mobility
    will never be feasible without accidents. Accordingly, there will always be dead. Now if you see how many driving movements and thus also kilometers can be mastered, then Germany is not bad. Of course, every dead one is too much but road traffic is very good in relation to other actuations. Therefore, perhaps I would tend to a maximum of helmet duty for cycling and pedeleckers. Not more. You can not get 100% individual traffic.

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  4. Why bike pathways?
    If the green madness continues in this pace, the existing car-free roads can be used. Driving by car to work is then no longer necessary in the face of lack of jobs…..

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  5. Is correct
    Short, apt, to the point. There are only a few nations that are so unrestrained self-destruction like the Germans.

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  6. We need more education
    For the older bikers for this the sellers are responsible. Pretty much every Pedelec has three or four endurance levels in stage 1, support as well as starting acceleration is slightly high, increases with each higher level. Of course, the Hestellers can do something that the support is as gentle as possible. My Pedelec with Bosch Active Motive I can customize my needs by means of Nyon computers. Proposal A special start-up level for seniors and already the problems are the way to do a compulsory insurance for e biker is certainly no solution.

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  7. It would be nice if there were real bike paths
    The problem with the go-bike paths does not exist first since it is Pedelecs. Even a normal cyclist would like to keep exceptionally resisting his kick, average cut and do not constantly rise because of all the foot in the foot, dachshunds, walker green or other iron in the iron and resumed. Two annotations, when Pedelec traffic has doubled in 3 years (100% increase!), then 9.7% increase in one year, yes really little. Second, Stvo §2 (4) "Outside of closed villages you can use bike paths with moped and e-bikes." So no additional sign "Mopfas free" necessary.

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  8. The handling of mind
    You have to take back very back in city traffic. Eco mode is enough. At 25 (Real rather at 27), the engine switches off. And China is probably the last nation who lives us something. Cycling in the dirt of industry is no contribution to environmental protection. They only want the Aberillions who do not have a car after holding one.

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