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Potsdam (dpa / bb) - Fewer traffic accidents, but more deaths on the streets of Brandenburg during the corona pandemic: That comes from the preliminary traffic accident report 2020, the Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU), Transport Minister Guido Beermann (CDU) and Police President Oliver Stepien on Have submitted Monday together.
According to this, 140 people were killed in traffic accidents last year, in 2019 there were 125. «The number 1 cause of death on Brandenburg's streets remains the frenzy.
Almost half of all traffic accident deaths died because of excessive speed, ”said Stübgen about the figures.
In this area, the number of road traffic accidents resulting in death increased from 38.4 percent in 2019 to 45.7 percent last year.
Brandenburg thus sets a sad record: In terms of the number of accident fatalities, the state was in first place in Germany last year.
According to nationwide traffic accident statistics, an average of 52 people per 1 million inhabitants died.
This is followed by the federal states of Saxony-Anhalt with 51 deaths and Lower Saxony with 42. The fewest deaths per 1 million inhabitants were recorded in Hamburg with 8.
Corona lockdown, home office and contact restrictions in the past year had an impact on the number of accidents.
Brandenburg recorded fewer traffic accidents than in 2019. The number fell from almost 84,000 to around 71,700.
The number of injuries also fell last year to around 10 100 - according to the information, this is the lowest number in the country's existence.
In 2019, around 11,800 people were injured in traffic accidents
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The most frequent cause of accidents was therefore failure to keep the safety distance, followed by excessive speed.
This is followed by disregarding the right of way, drinking and driving and drugs as causes of accidents.
A positive development in the country: The number of traffic accidents with children fell by 4.6 percent to 718 accidents.
(2019: 753 accidents).
Two children died in road traffic last year, and three children in 2019.
The number of injured children fell to 883 (2019: 1080).
In contrast, the number of fatalities among young adults in road traffic rose to 20, in 2019 it was 11.
Accidents involving cyclists increased by 1.7 percent from 3,897 to 3,962.
According to the balance sheet, more than half of the bicycle accidents were caused by cyclists themselves.
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According to the evaluation by the Ministry of the Interior, overall traffic volume in 2020 in Brandenburg, as in the other federal states, fell compared to the year before.
Traffic on motorways and federal highways fell by around 12 percent, and heavy goods traffic on motorways by 3.1 percent.
In the border area with Poland, higher declines were recorded than in areas near Berlin.
In Berlin, too, the number of traffic fatalities rose - from 40 to 50. In a comparison of the federal states, the capital is in a significantly better position than all other large states.
The number of traffic accidents and injuries fell.
For 2020, the police registered 126 286 accidents, 21 020 fewer than in 2019 (minus 14 percent).
2054 people were seriously injured, 250 fewer than in the previous year.
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