Fewer accidents, fewer injuries: The accident record of the police headquarters in Upper Bavaria South is positive.
This is also noticeable in the district.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen - The police were called 3140 times last year about an accident in the district.
For comparison: the officials recorded 3750 accidents in 2019. Fewer accidents also meant fewer injuries - 680 road users had to receive medical treatment in the past year (2019: 729).
The number of road deaths changed only slightly: Twelve people died in 2020, one less than the year before.
The police headquarters in Upper Bavaria announced in a press release.
With these numbers, the district is in line with the overall trend of the area of operation: the police headquarters in Rosenheim recorded a total of 33,492 traffic accidents, around 6,700 fewer than in 2019.
This is undoubtedly a positive trend "
Police chief Robert Kopp
The number of accidents with personal injuries in 2020 is the lowest in the past ten years.
“This is undoubtedly a positive trend,” says Police Commissioner Robert Kopp.
However, this must be viewed “in the light of the corona pandemic”: “In particular due to the lockdown in spring and late autumn, the widespread failure of classroom teaching at schools and the need to work from home wherever possible, the number temporarily increased Road users and mobility significantly decreased. "
Alcohol and drugs in traffic are still a big problem
In Kopp's eyes, drugs and alcohol in road traffic are still a major problem: “The number of intoxicated road users is still a cause for concern,” and “there is also a significant number of unreported cases”.
In the fight against alcohol and drug consumption in road traffic, Kopp would like to "set police activity priorities".
The speed monitoring "is indicated because last year 28 people in southern Upper Bavaria lost their lives because they were driving too fast".
With a new traffic safety program launched by the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, "the police headquarters would like to work on increasing traffic safety, reducing the number of fatalities and injuries as much as possible and better protecting particularly vulnerable road users".
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Also read: The case of a run over man including a hit and run on the B11 in Wolfratshausen was recently heard in the local court.
