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Frankfurt’s Hanauer Landstraße Tops 2024 List of Germany’s Most Accident‑Prone Streets

An Allianz Direct readout of official crash data points to rush‑hour turning collisions as the dominant risk.

Overview

  • Hanauer Landstraße in Frankfurt recorded 59 injury crashes in 2024, including 12 severe, edging Kieler Straße in Hamburg and Vahrenwalder Straße in Hanover (both 59) on severity.
  • Friedrichstraße was Berlin’s worst street with 49 injury crashes and four severe cases, as police logged more than 130,000 crashes citywide in 2024 with 1,920 serious injuries and 55 deaths.
  • Dresden’s Königsbrücker Straße remained Saxony’s top hotspot with 38 injury crashes, down from 52 the year before, with six severe cases reported.
  • Hanover placed three corridors in the national top ten—Vahrenwalder Straße, Leineufer and Hildesheimer Straße—where Hildesheimer saw 46 crashes including five severe and one fatal.
  • The study draws on BASt, Destatis and the Unfallatlas and counts only crashes with injuries, identifying turning and crossing collisions with a pronounced 16:00 peak; the re-analysis has not been independently verified.