And there are three times more cars on the roads now than in 1970.
Is it because of autobahn?
Do you have any laws for mobile use whilst driving?
That slight bump upwards in the early 90s….. East Germans feeling a bit too free on the Autobahn?
Of course that regulations on alcohol, speed limit and so on, will decrease the number of accidents. But there are other factors at play : the safety of cars improved : airbags, car protections, more recently auto-break… My point is the analysis of statistics like this should take into account also some other factors. I see some from governments statements like : “We saved 17 lives this year” bla bla bla.
Can someone explain why there is an increase in the number of deaths after 1960 when the 50 km/h limit was imposed ?
When I served in the Bundeswehr (German Army) in 1985, they lost a battalion in traffic deaths per year.
this graph shows a correlation at exactly one point. 100 km/h outside built up areas. the rest doesnt change the trajectory of persons killed at all
It seems like ze speed limits increase deaths, no? Except the 100 km/h one.
Damn roads used to be a slaughterhouse compared to today.
What are crash helmets?
Finally people have learned to drive after all these years
It would also be interesting to compare these numbers to the number of all accidents to see how much the better and quicker medical care is responsible for deaths going down. Crashes that used to be fatal because it took an hour to bring the patient to the hospital can now be survived because it only takes a few minutes by helicopter. (And of course also better medicine and procedures in the hospitals themselves.)
Classic case of correlation vs causation.
Just because the law was enacted around a time doesn’t mean that the reduction in deaths was because of it.
Overall, looks like there is a general downward trend – due to better cars and laws but can’t tell exactly which ones…
Thanks technology.
1970 people were out and about in their extremely well made trabants
I wonder how the graph looks for pedestrians/cyclists killed by cars.
Should add that the radar trap was introduced in 1956 and widespread in 1960. While it took quite a while to show results it allowed to actually enforce speed limits.
Because without a reliable way to track speeds, speed limits were kind of meaningless.
Conclusion: Alcohol limits did not have an effect. Speed 130 on the Autobahn did not have an effect. Helmets, Seatbelts… Limited effect. Speed 50 in urbanisations: short time effect.
I would like to see technical innovations put inside the graph.
Also to get a better idea of what is going on, I would rather draw the number of deaths per 100.000km driven for example.
Anyways, statistics is a bitch.
most of this decrease is related to safer cars, not random laws
I think a good part of the decrease is that medicine just got better.
You should include key car technologies introduction
0.5 is still too high tbh
A few years before I got my driving license the max allowed ammount of alcohol in blood in Spain was dropped from 1 to 0.5 g/l. There was a lot of outrage.
I have been tested twice: 0.36 and 0.42. Both times I could clearly feel I was mildly intoxicated and my senses and reflexes were somewhat hampered.
At 0.99 anyone is clearly drunk, I don’t get how that was ever allowed
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Crash helmet?
And there are three times more cars on the roads now than in 1970.
Is it because of autobahn?
Do you have any laws for mobile use whilst driving?
That slight bump upwards in the early 90s….. East Germans feeling a bit too free on the Autobahn?
Of course that regulations on alcohol, speed limit and so on, will decrease the number of accidents. But there are other factors at play : the safety of cars improved : airbags, car protections, more recently auto-break… My point is the analysis of statistics like this should take into account also some other factors. I see some from governments statements like : “We saved 17 lives this year” bla bla bla.
Can someone explain why there is an increase in the number of deaths after 1960 when the 50 km/h limit was imposed ?
When I served in the Bundeswehr (German Army) in 1985, they lost a battalion in traffic deaths per year.
this graph shows a correlation at exactly one point. 100 km/h outside built up areas. the rest doesnt change the trajectory of persons killed at all
It seems like ze speed limits increase deaths, no? Except the 100 km/h one.
Damn roads used to be a slaughterhouse compared to today.
What are crash helmets?
Finally people have learned to drive after all these years
It would also be interesting to compare these numbers to the number of all accidents to see how much the better and quicker medical care is responsible for deaths going down. Crashes that used to be fatal because it took an hour to bring the patient to the hospital can now be survived because it only takes a few minutes by helicopter. (And of course also better medicine and procedures in the hospitals themselves.)
Classic case of correlation vs causation.
Just because the law was enacted around a time doesn’t mean that the reduction in deaths was because of it.
Overall, looks like there is a general downward trend – due to better cars and laws but can’t tell exactly which ones…
Thanks technology.
1970 people were out and about in their extremely well made trabants
I wonder how the graph looks for pedestrians/cyclists killed by cars.
Should add that the radar trap was introduced in 1956 and widespread in 1960. While it took quite a while to show results it allowed to actually enforce speed limits.
Because without a reliable way to track speeds, speed limits were kind of meaningless.
Conclusion: Alcohol limits did not have an effect. Speed 130 on the Autobahn did not have an effect. Helmets, Seatbelts… Limited effect. Speed 50 in urbanisations: short time effect.
I would like to see technical innovations put inside the graph.
Also to get a better idea of what is going on, I would rather draw the number of deaths per 100.000km driven for example.
Anyways, statistics is a bitch.
most of this decrease is related to safer cars, not random laws
I think a good part of the decrease is that medicine just got better.
You should include key car technologies introduction
0.5 is still too high tbh
A few years before I got my driving license the max allowed ammount of alcohol in blood in Spain was dropped from 1 to 0.5 g/l. There was a lot of outrage.
I have been tested twice: 0.36 and 0.42. Both times I could clearly feel I was mildly intoxicated and my senses and reflexes were somewhat hampered.
At 0.99 anyone is clearly drunk, I don’t get how that was ever allowed