In August, significantly fewer people were injured or killed in traffic in Berlin than in the previous year.
A total of 1640 people were involved in accidents, which was 10 percent less than in the same month last year, according to the Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office.
Accordingly, 229 people were seriously injured (minus 5.8 percent) and 1411 people were slightly injured (minus 10.4 percent).
Berlin / Potsdam - There were no road deaths, while five people died in accidents in August 2020.
The number of traffic accidents remained roughly at the previous year's level (plus 3.1 percent), the number of serious accidents even increased (plus 12.5 percent).
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