Wednesday, February 23, 2011

2010 fewer deaths in road traffic

Last year 3657 people died on German roads. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), according to preliminary results further reported, these were 495 fatalities (-12%) less than in 2009. Thus, the positive trend of recent years has even accelerated in 2010: the number of fatalities reached their lowest level in 60 years.

Even with the number of people injured in road traffic, there was a decline from 2009 to around 371 700 persons (-6.5%). The total number of police recorded accidents rose last year by 3.8 percent to 2.4 million. The increase is solely due to accidents with property damage - they rose to 2.1 million (+5.5%).

The number of injury accidents has decreased by 7.1 percent on the other hand, some 288 800th First time in many years, it has not in any state where more traffic deaths than last year. Only in Bremen in 2010 as many people died on the roads as in 2009.

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