The number of people killed in alcohol-related accidents as a proportion of all traffic fatalities fell from 19.7% to 7.4% in the period under analysis. In 1991, 2,229 people were killed in alcohol-related accidents by 2015 however, this figure had fallen by 89% to 256. The success of measures to combat alcohol- related accidents is reflected not only in the figures pertaining to accidents in which car drivers were the main culprits, but also in the decrease in the number of all road users killed in alcohol-related accidents. When it comes to fatal accidents, however, excessive speed is still the most common sole cause. While excessive speed used to be by far the most common single cause of driver error in accidents resulting in personal injury, it is now only the fourth most common cause. These figures show that measures to combat drunk-driving and excessive speed in particular have helped to make roads safer. A rise was seen in the number of accidents caused by the failure of drivers to maintain sufficient distance from the vehicle in front (by 5% from 37,975 to 39,982). Another cause that has fallen significantly is excessive speed (by 63% from 84,380 to 31,559). Instances of drunk-driving have fallen significantly (by 75% from 29,800 to 7,553). In 1991, this figure was 378,373 instances of driver error among 510,357 drivers, a reduction of 33%. Instances of drunk-driving combined with excessive speed have fallen considerably, but excessive speed alone remains the single biggest cause of fatal accidentsĪccording to official figures, 253,504 of the 378,156 accidents resulting in personal injury on German roads in 2015 were caused by driver error.
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