Serious accident on B2: The car overturns, driver seriously injured!

Serious accident on B2: The car overturns, driver seriously injured!

On Monday, May 12, 2025, a serious traffic accident occurred on the B2 in Upper Franconia at 5:39 p.m. The accident passed between Weidensees (Betzenstein) and Bronn (Pegnitz) when a driver was traveling towards Bronn. Her vehicle came to the right of the road due to an unknown cause and drove several meters in the ditch several meters before it pushed to a water through and overturned. Ultimately, the car remained on the roof. The driver was seriously injured and had to be cared for by the rescue workers. In addition to the rescue workers, the water management office, the road maintenance department and an expert were also present. The road was closed until 8 p.m. to handle the accident recording and the rescue of the vehicle. Infranken reports that such accidents are tragic individual cases, but which clarify the general traffic safety situation.

The current accident in Upper Franconia falls into a worrying trend in German road traffic. According to police.bayern.de , 779 people were seriously injured last year, which has been the lowest value for decades. Despite this positive number, there is an alarming increase in fatal traffic accidents, especially among bicycle and pedelec drivers who made up for about a third of the 40 traffic fatalities. Ten of the 13 killed cyclists were between 60 and 91 years old, which again underlines the urgency of measures to improve traffic safety.

Measures for traffic safety

In order to further increase traffic safety, the Bavarian Ministry of Transport is planning an intensification of preventive and repressive measures in 2025. The aim is to increase the awareness of danger among cyclists and other road users in order to further reduce the number of accidents. The Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMV) pursued the goal of the "Vision Zero" in 2023, so no dead in road traffic. Despite the efforts, 2,839 people died in road traffic accidents last year, which corresponds to an increase of 1.8 percent compared to the previous year, as bmdv.bund.de

In order to slow down this trend, numerous measures to protect life in road traffic are taken. This includes innovations in the road traffic regulations, which are intended to make road traffic more secure, more climate -friendly and fair. For example, the turning assistant for truck is intensively promoted, whereby also working on new vehicle security systems is being worked on at European level. These efforts are crucial to sustainably improve traffic safety and to prevent tragic accidents such as the current incident on the B2