Traffic accidents

Press releases

21 April 2023 Road traffic accidents in February 2023: 5% more persons injured than in the same month a year earlier

In February 2023, roughly 21,600 people were injured in road traffic accidents in Germany. Based on provisional figures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that their number increased by approximately 900, or 5%, compared with the same month of the previous year. The number of people killed in traffic accidents rose by 13 to 167 in February 2023. Compared with February 2020, the month before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany, the number of fatalities was down by 24 and that of persons injured by roughly 2,700 (-11%).

24 March 2023 Road traffic accidents in January 2023: 8% more persons injured than in the same month of the previous year

2 March 2023 CORRECTION: Older people have fewer traffic accidents

24 February 2023 Traffic accidents in 2022: 220 more fatalities than in the previous year

23 January 2023 Road traffic accidents in November 2022: number of persons injured up by roughly 9% year on year

22 December 2022 6 fewer traffic accident fatalities in October than in the same month a year earlier

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GENESIS-Online

More data on traffic accidents are available from the GENESIS-Online database.

The database content will continuously be extended, and links will be provided here.

Interactive Accident Atlas

The interactive Accident Atlas of the statistical offices of the Federation and the Länder shows accidents at the regional level: Where do most traffic accidents occur in my town? Where am I most at risk when I go to work? Where did fatal accidents occur? The atlas shows accidents with personal injury involving passenger cars, motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians.

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Persons killed in road traffic accidents by selected types of road use and locations

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Persons killed in road traffic accidents by Länder

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Driver-related causes of accidents involving personal injury in road traffic

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Casualties in road traffic accidents

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Trend in the number of persons killed in road traffic accidents

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Persons killed in road traffic accidents

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