"Accidents don't happen, accidents are caused"
On March 18, 2024, the Soest district police authority presented the 2023 traffic statistics. The head of the Soest district police department, Thomas Link, and his traffic director Andreas Kuhn did not only have good figures to present.
The number of people killed in traffic accidents rose from three in 2022 to nine in 2023. There were a total of 9798 traffic accidents in 2023, 350 more than in 2022.
What is positive in this context, however, is that the number of injuries fell by six percent. The number of cyclists involved in a traffic accident also fell significantly.
You can find more information on the figures in our annual statistics on the right.
You can find all the figures from previous years here.