Serious accident in the north: 74-year-old bounces into a guardrail!

Serious accident in the north: 74-year-old bounces into a guardrail!

In a serious traffic accident in the Stormarn district, a 74-year-old driver from Hamburg was seriously injured on Sunday afternoon. The incident occurred near Willinghusen (Barsbüttel municipality) at 5:30 p.m. when the driver raced from the A24 to the Willinghusener Landstrasse against a guardrail.

The vehicle, a citroen, was completely destroyed and got stuck under the guardrail, which prevented a crash. The driver had to be taken to the hospital, while flying debris hit another car. Fortunately, there were no other injuries. The badly damaged car has been towed, and the investigation into the cause of the accident is already in progress, such as the mopo reported.

traffic accident statistics in Germany

The incident in Stormarn can be classified in a larger context of traffic safety in Germany. According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) serve extensive statistics on the traffic safety of the extraction of reliable data on accident. These statistics help develop legislative measures, traffic education, road construction and in vehicle technology.

Road traffic accident statistics record accidents, the participants, vehicle types and the causes of the accident and thus form a well -founded basis for state transport policy. A decline in road dead has been registered in recent years, but current trends also show an increase through factors such as aggressive driving behavior and distraction through smartphones.