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Berlin (dpa / bb) - 48 people have already died in accidents on Berlin's streets this year.
Police spokesman Thilo Cablitz said on Friday evening that this was more than in all of 2019, when 40 road deaths were registered.
The “Tagesspiegel” (Saturday) previously reported that almost three quarters of the accident victims were on foot or by bike.
As the police spokesman for the German Press Agency said, 18 pedestrians, 17 cyclists, 9 two-wheeler drivers and 2 occupants each of cars and trucks died.
According to the newspaper report, in accordance with the Mobility Act, after accidents resulting in fatalities, the competent authorities must examine measures to prevent further accidents.
But for most of the danger spots and hotspots of accidents, no remedy has been found, it said.
The Changing Cities association called for a city-wide speed limit of 30 kilometers per hour.
The Berlin victim commissioner Roland Weber had called for a change of course in dealing with the injured and relatives.
"Berlin divided into first and second class victims," he wrote in a guest article in the "Tagesspiegel".
While victims of crime and terrorist attacks are helped unbureaucratically, accident victims and their relatives are left on their own.
There are practically no contact points and claims to financial support.
The Victims Compensation Act must be changed.
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