Overview
- Hanauer Landstraße tops the national list with 59 injury crashes and 12 severe cases, edging Kieler Straße in Hamburg and Vahrenwalder Straße in Hanover, which also had 59 but fewer severe injuries.
- Trierer Straße in Aachen ranks fourth with 58 crashes, including one fatality, followed by Hammer Straße in Münster with 57 and Hamburg’s Cuxhavener Straße with 56.
- Berlin’s most accident-prone corridor in 2024 is Friedrichstraße with 49 injury crashes and four severe cases, while Hanover places three streets in the national top 10: Vahrenwalder Straße (59), Am Leineufer (50) and Hildesheimer Straße (46).
- The most common crash type involves turning or crossing conflicts, and accidents peak around 16:00 during the afternoon commute and school pickup period.
- The study draws solely on injury crashes from the Deutscher Unfallatlas, BASt and the Federal Statistical Office, converts coordinates to street addresses, segments by postal code, and applies severity-based tie-breakers, with results published from data extracted on October 30, 2025.