Press release No. 423 of 23 November 2017
WIESBADEN – According to provisional results, 279 people died in road traffic accidents in Germany in September 2017. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a decrease of 47 people, or 14.4%, compared with September 2016. The number of persons injured also declined in September 2017, by 14.8% to roughly 34,100 compared with the same month a year earlier.