According to Fani Zanet, a driver’s license consultant, in death by 2.4 percent decreased by 2.4 percent. This is still “too much to talk about changing the trend. Road traffic in Germany is still too dangerous for many people. Safety in road traffic should not be a coincidence, but requires decisive political actions, ”Zaneta said.
The child gets an injury every 19 minutes
The road safety expert sees a special need for actions when it comes to the safety of weaker road users: “Almost two -thirds of city killings killed in 2024 on foot or on a bicycle. On average, the child is injured in a traffic accident every 19 minutes, ”says Zanet.
According to the Federal Statistical Administration, 53 children under the age of 15 were among those who died on the movement. Contrary to the general trend, this number has even increased significantly. In 2023, in this age group there were 44 traffic.
The number of racing dead in the elderly has also increased. In 2024, 11 101 people aged 65 and older, which amounted to 30, compared with the previous year of 2023. According to the federal office, 40 percent of the traffic amounted to this age group as a whole.
Every third accident with a fatal outcome at a too high pace
According to statistics, excessive speed was still the most common cause of fatal accidents. 30 percent of all deaths were the result of an event in which at least one participated exceeded the permissible maximum pace or did not come at the speed of the road, which was not adapted to the current road conditions.
Therefore, alcohol consumption played a role in 35,100 traffic accidents, which was a slight decrease compared to the previous year of 2023. 198 people died.
As can be seen from the calendar of accidents of national statistics, the holiday of the Ascension of Christ, which is used in many places as a father or a male day for a tour of drinking in many places. In 2024, a day associated with alcohol, were registered during the day, three times more than on average all the other days. The Ascension Day was replaced on January 1, a day with the most alcoholic accidents about 10 years ago.
The federal office published preliminary data on the accident in February. At that time, he had already announced that the number of those killed in the previous year fell to the third lowest level from the moment the recording began. Only in the crown, 2020 and 2021 fewer people died in traffic jams.
In total, the police covered about 2.51 million road accidents throughout the degree of severity throughout the country last year. This was a minimum decrease by 0.3 percent compared to 2023, when about 2.52 million accidents were registered. With 2.22 million accidents there were only sheet metal and property damage.
The biggest risk on the roads
Land roads outside the cities are still based on the greatest risk of fatal accidents. 57 percent of deaths died there as a result of accidents. Only 33 percent of the dead were associated with accidents in the internal part, ten percent were associated with incidents on highways.
The cause of high death indicators on industrial roads is a faster trip paired with other factors, such as the lack of separation from oncoming traffic and obstacles, such as trees next to the route. In turn, the risk of deadly accidents, especially for pedestrians and cyclists, was high. In 2024, 62 percent of the dead were on one of these sages.
