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Erfurt / Wiesbaden (dpa / th) - In the past year, fewer people died in traffic in Thuringia due to Corona than in 2019. This is based on preliminary figures that the Federal Statistical Office presented on Thursday.
Accordingly, there were 83 road fatalities in the country in 2020, 9 fewer than in the previous year.
This is also due to the fact that significantly fewer kilometers were covered on the roads during the pandemic.
The number of people sustained serious injuries in accidents has also fallen.
According to the statisticians, the number was 10.1 percent below the level of 2019 and thus 1489. 5010 people were slightly injured, 14.6 percent fewer than in the previous year.
According to the authority, this development could also be observed nationwide.
According to this, 2724 people died in road traffic across Germany in 2020 - more than ever since the statistics began.
The number of injuries fell by 14.7 percent to 328,000.
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