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Accident statistics 2025: About 2.5 million traffic accidents in Germany
According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in 2025 a total of 2,814 people in Germany died as a result of traffic accidents. According to preliminary results, this would be two percent or 44 more fatalities than in 2024 (2,770 fatalities).
The number of injured remained roughly the same in 2025 compared with the previous year at 366,000 — the number of lightly injured rose by 3,000 to 318,000 (+1 percent), while the number of severely injured fell by 4 percent to 48,400. This was the lowest figure since 1991, when the injured were first categorized separately as seriously and lightly injured.
Types of accidents
The police registered around 2.5 million accidents in 2025 – roughly the same as the previous year (-0.2 percent). That corresponds to about 6,850 accidents per day on average. Of these, 2.2 million accidents involved property damage (-0.3 percent, compared with the previous year). The number of accidents in which people were injured or killed rose by one percent to around 293,000.
Federal states
The most road-traffic fatalities per capita were in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with 60 and in Brandenburg with 50 deaths per one million inhabitants, according to Destatis.
The city-states (Berlin: 10 and Hamburg: 11) as well as North Rhine-Westphalia (26) and Saarland (27) would have been far below the national value of 34 fatalities per 1 million inhabitants due to their settlement structure.
Since there are no values for Bremen for November and December 2025, this is not shown separately here. For the federal result, the Bremen values have been estimated.
January to November
Detailed results are available for the period January to November 2025. According to them, more people have been killed in almost all categories of road users than in the previous year's period.
From January to November 2025, according to the data, more car occupants and cyclists died (+37 fatalities or +4 percent as well as +18 fatalities or +4 percent). The number of fatally injured users of motorcycles with license plates also rose by 11 (+28 percent).
The number of people killed in goods vehicles has also risen (+7 killed or +7 percent). In addition, there has been an increase among users of e-scooters (+6 killed or +25 percent) and pedestrians, with four more fatalities (+1 percent).
In the specified period, however, according to Destatis figures, fewer people died who were traveling on officially registered motorcycles, including light motorcycles, motor scooters and motorcycles (-41 killed or -8 percent).
December
In December 2025, in Germany approximately 25,300 people were injured in road traffic accidents, according to the figures (i.e., three percent or 800 more injuries than in the same month last year).
The number of road fatalities rose by five to 220 people. The number of traffic accidents registered by the police in December 2025 stands at a total of 208,600 road traffic accidents, four percent more than in the previous year's period (+7,900). (Anna Barbara Brüggmann, Transport newspaper, source: Destatis)
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