Drunk driver in Kirchberg: chaos on the street and high damage

in Kirchberg an der Murr the night of Thursday there was an incident with an alcoholic driver. The 51-year-old man drove with his VW at around 1:20 a.m. when he got off the road several times. In this way, he caused considerable damage to property by damaging two street lamps, giving up a stone on a roundabout, grating a car parked on the edge of the road and suffered a wall at a church. The driver was heavily drunk, which led to this dangerous behavior. The police of the Rems-Murr district are investigating on this matter.

accidents caused under the influence of alcohol are still a serious problem in road traffic. According to an analysis of car, engine and sports , 70.4 % of car drivers who caused an accident with personal injury had an accident of at least 1.1 per thousand. It is worrying that every fifth driver even had a value of over 2.0 per thousand. In the age group of 45- to 54-year-olds, the proportion of drivers with more than 2.0 per thousand is 34.3 %.

statistics on alcohol accidents

A total of 2.3 million accidents occurred in Germany in the reporting year, with 26,882 of which took place under the influence of intoxicating funds. This corresponds to 1.6 % of all accidents. The number of alcohol -related accidents rose by 3.5 %compared to 2020. The statistics of personal injury are also particularly alarming: 15,145 people were injured and 197 died as a result of alcohol -related accidents. Accidents under the influence of drugs also increase; They rose to 2,409 cases, with 53 deaths being recorded.

alcohol influence is one of the most common causes of accidents in 5.1 % of accidents with personal damage and often affects weekends. Accidents occur most frequently between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., followed by the period from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.