Accident record : More Dead in Berlin's traffic - including two children

It is not a pleasant appointment for the Commissioner. Together with Senator Andreas hostage (SPD) presents Barbara Slowik on Monday morning, the traffic, the accident record for 2018. There were 45 Deaths in the transport, significantly more than the 36 in the year 2017. In addition, there were a total of nearly 1000 accidents more than in the previous year (144.325 in the year 2018), nearly 1000 more wounded (18.217 in the year 2018), most of them slightly injured (15.630).

the main causes of accidents were in error, as in the years before the Turn, and failure to respect the right-of-way.

Tragically, the President is for police Slowik, that it is one of your civil servants was caused in January 2018 the death of a young woman. With a Tempo of 90 for a strip car got hit on in the middle of the car by Fabien Martini. The driver of the patrol car was found after the accident, a per Mille of alcohol in the blood. The case is expected to come this year before the court.

another fatal accident has made headlines, it was the first of the year 2018: On 23. January was killed in schöneberg, a cyclist of a right-turning truck. Bicycle activists protested against the unsafe intersection, it was announced that district politicians had criticised the intersection previously considered unsafe.

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The Protest was so loud that the transport Senator, Regine Günther (independent, Green) already saw a day after the accident, the corner of convoy street and main street personally. Quickly the red color was applied, the more the traffic management did not want company.

Disappointed Cycling activists set up subsequently in may, on their own bollards to separate the bike path from the car lane by the police away, however, hours later, because they were considered illegal.

Until the end of October was finally the traffic management and was self-bollard installation - for the first time, in Berlin.

The accident at the intersection of convoy street corner main street has fueled the debate about protected bike lanes clearly: in the Meantime, to anywhere in the city bollard.

Senator Guenther will be on Monday at the presentation of the traffic, the accident record from your state Secretary Ingmar Streese represented.

Among the dead of 2019 two children

were died and Among the 45 dead were, as in previous years, mostly vulnerable road users: There are 19 pedestrians (13 in the year of 2017), 11 cyclists (nine in the year 2017), nine motorcyclists and three Car occupants. The last three summarizes the police under "other", it was a wheelchair and two Truck drivers.

Among the dead were two children, both of which drove the wheel, both accidents occurred in mid-June: A 13-year-old girl was in Rummelsburg under a tram, an eight-year-old was recognised in the car in Spandau by a right turn and load.

Because of the frequency of this cause of accidents Günther is now calling for compulsory equipment of trucks with assistance systems to warn the driver when making a Turn. Four of the eleven cyclists died in 2018.

"The Figures show clearly the importance of mediation, control, and, above all, enforcement of the rules to all road users alike," said the domestic policy spokesman of the FDP parliamentary group, Marcel Luthe. "The many accidents due to rule violations by cyclists - could mostly be avoided with severe injuries to the cyclists, if the police would check, finally, as intensively as compared to passenger car drivers. Road safety can only work if everyone has to follow both the rules."

"in the past year has increased our city to the Senate information of around 36,000 inhabitants, the vehicle population continues to grow," said the Vice-GdP-country-Chairman Kerstin Philipp. "The number of accidents is increasing there is a trend we unfortunately had to expect. Nevertheless, we are talking about 18.172 injured and 45 people Dead, of which a variety would be healthy, come home, if all would keep quite simple and easily understandable traffic rules in our country," said the trade unionist.

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