Heavy frontal crash on B462: five injuries, including children!

Heavy frontal crash on B462: five injuries, including children!

A serious traffic accident on federal road 462 in the Freudenstadt district injured five people on April 13, 2025, including children. TAG24 reports that ... . In the frontal collision, a 39-year-old driver got into oncoming traffic for an unknown cause, where she collided with the vehicle of an 18-year-old driver. Both drivers were caught in their vehicles and had to be released with the help of the fire brigade. According to the first reports, both suffered serious injuries and were immediately flown to nearby hospitals with a rescue helicopter.

The passenger of the 18-year-old and the children in the car of the 39-year-old had to be taken to the hospital due to minor injuries. The estimated property damage amounts to around 50,000 euros. In order to enable the accident recording and the subsequent cleaning of the road, the federal road was temporarily fully blocked.

use of the emergency services

The use of emergency services in Germany is regularly analyzed to evaluate performance. According to an analysis by the Federal Agency for Roads (BAST) from 2020 and 2021, there were a significant number of missions. A total of around 13.1 million missions were registered annually during this period, of which 1.8 percent were due to traffic accidents, which corresponds to a historical low. This means that around 130,000 traffic accidents have been recorded per year, which affects the current situation in the transport system Bast confirms that ... .

The use of rescue helicopters plays an important role in this context. In the current analysis of 2020/2021, around 66,800 rescue helicopter flights were recorded annually. These make up 0.4 percent of all missions, but are often indispensable in serious traffic accidents to provide patients quickly.

Current trends in the emergency services

The total number of operations has decreased slightly compared to previous years. The number of operations from 2016/2017 to 2020/2021 from 13.9 million to 13.1 million Further examination shows that ... . The average aid period is 8.7 minutes, whereby 95 percent of the missions can be achieved within 16.2 minutes. This shows the efficiency and quickness of reaction of the emergency services, even among the conditions that are difficult by the corona pandemic.

The incident on the B462 illustrates the urgency and importance of a well -functioning emergency services, especially in view of the occurrence of serious traffic accidents. The use of the emergency services is not only necessary, but also crucial for the care of the injuries in the shortest possible time.