Press Year-on-year increase of 23 traffic accident fatalities in the first three quarters of 2018

Press release No. 452 of 22 November 2018

WIESBADEN – In the period from January to September 2018, the number of people who lost their lives in traffic accidents increased by 23 to 2,443 (+1.0%) compared with the first nine months of 2017. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the number of people injured in road accidents increased by 0.8% to 297,400.

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