SAFETY IN TRAFFIC IN THE NEW AND OLD FEDERAL STATES. PT. 1: STRUCTURAL COMPARISON OF ACCIDENT EVENTS. PT. 2: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF NEW AND OLD FEDERAL STATES

There is a structural analysis on injury accidents in the New German Federal States for the years 1988 until 1990 as well as a comparison with injury accidents in the former German Federal States in 1990. The analysis focuses on injury accidents and especially on killed road users. The data were drawn from tables of the statistical services. In the new German Federal States the number of injury accidents rose by 46% in 1990. In the same year the number of killed road users increased by 76% against the previous year. There is more and more dangerous behavior in the new states like drinking and driving, speeding and failure to observe the appropriate distance. Further, a poor infrastructure often leads to collisions between on-coming vehicles. Traffic safety, in the old and new Federal States is compared to the situation in 8 European countries and the USA. There is information on some underlying conditions, figures on killed persons as well as structure and risk values.