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Road Accident Deaths per 100 Million Travel Miles, by Road Category in what was formerly known as West Germany, now called the "Old States" of the German Federal Republic.
| YEAR | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 |
| Federal freeways | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.8 |
| Federal highways | 8.1 | 7.4 | 7.1 | 6.9 | 6.1 | 5.0 | 5.2 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 3.1 |
| State highways | 9.4 | 8.4 | 3.2 | 8.2 | 6.8 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.7 |
| County highways | 7.7 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 7.3 | 6.0 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.4 |
| Local highways | 5.5 | 5.6 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.8 |
| All Roads Combined | 6.1 | 5.8 | 5.5 | 5.3 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.3 |
For reference, in 1993, the autobahns had 813 fatalities, i.e. about 12% of the 6,926 road deaths on all roads combined. From 1980 to 1993, total road deaths decreased from 13,041 to 6,926, i.e. about in half.
The numbers cover West Germany from 1980 to 1990, and the Altesbundeslander (former West German states) from 1991 to 1993. The Neuesbundeslander (former East German states) were not broken out by road category, had only "all roads combined" for 1990-1993, so were excluded from the table above (for reference the Eastern death rates were 8.7, 6.9, and 6.0 per 100M travel-miles). The translation is mine. I divided the integer "Getoetete je. Mrd. Fahrzeugkilometer" (deaths per billion travel kilometers) by 6.2 to obtain deaths per 100 million travel miles.
Information obtained by the NMA national office from the German Embassy, and faxed to me on April 15, 1996. I recognize it as an edition of Verkehr in Zahlen (Traffic in Numbers) by the Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (federal road research agency), part of the German Bundesministerium für Verkehr (BMV) {link to BMV site}. Pages 166-167.
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June 06, 1997