Press release No. 063 of 27 February 2018
WIESBADEN – 3,177 people were killed in road traffic accidents in Germany in 2017. Based on provisional figures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a decline of 29 people, or 0.9%, compared with 2016 (3,206 fatalities). The number of traffic accident fatalities was the lowest since the production of this set of statistics started more than 60 years ago. The number of persons injured also declined compared with a year earlier, by 2.1% to roughly 388,200 in 2017.
