Lifestement: cyclists lose control in Freiburg!

On January 5, 2025, a serious traffic accident occurred at 1:44 p.m. on the K6354 in Freiburg in the direction of Rümmingen. A 60-year-old cyclist fell alone and suffered life-threatening injuries.

The cyclist was downhill with a touring bike when he lost control in a right curve on a rain -wet road. He was not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident. After the first medical care on site, he was flown to a clinic with a rescue helicopter. The accident recording and the processing are carried out by the traffic service Weil am Rhein.

Witnesses wanted and accident statistics

The police asks witnesses to the accident to report on 07621/9800-0. In the police crime statistics for the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, no robberies were recorded in apartments in 2022, with a clearance rate of 0%. In 2021 there were two robberies that were completed with a classification rate of 50%.

The traffic accident statistics show that there were a total of 2,406,465 traffic accidents in Germany in 2022. Among them were 289,672 accidents with personal injury that demanded 2,788 fatalities. In 2021, 2,314,938 traffic accidents were recorded, including 258,987 accidents with personal injury and 2,562 deaths.

In addition to this incident, current research that bicycles are often involved in single accidents, especially in the winter months, are often involved. According to a study of accident research by insurers (UDV), the weather and infrastructure are common causes of accidents. Cyclists are increasingly crazy without external influence: no further road users are involved in every third fatal bicycle accident. In 2023 there were almost 27,400 bike accidents without other participants, in which around 6,400 people died seriously and died for 147 fatally due to such accidents, such as daily newspaper.de