Alcoholized driver injures himself and others at Crash in Dorsten!
Alcoholized driver injures himself and others at Crash in Dorsten!
On Thursday evening, January 10, 2025, a serious traffic accident occurred on the Carl-Duisberg-Straße in Marl around 7:45 p.m. A 47-year-old from Dorsten got into oncoming traffic by car. After initial investigations, the woman was allegedly alcoholized and wanted to turn left onto the A52 motorway. At that moment there was a collision with a 42-year-old driver from Herne.
Both women were injured in the accident and had to be transported to hospitals with ambulances. The 47-year-old was found to smell of alcohol, which is why a blood sample was removed. Her driver's license initially remained with the police. After the accident, both vehicles were so badly damaged that they had to be towed while the scene of the accident was temporarily blocked.
estimates of property damage
The entire property damage is estimated at around 15,000 euros. This number is part of the sad record of alcohol -related traffic accidents in Germany, which in 2021 increased to 13,628 accidents with personal injury, in which at least one involved was under the influence of alcohol. This corresponds to 5.3 % of the total traffic accidents with personal injury, as the Federal Statistical Office states. Compared to 2020, when there were only 13,003 accidents, there is a worrying trend again.
alcohol accidents occur particularly often on weekends. Statistics show that 24.7 % of alcohol accidents fall on a Sunday and 21.1 % on a Sunday, while only 12.3 % of accidents are overall on a Sunday and 9.8 % on a Sunday. This makes it clear that the risk to road users is significantly increased at the weekend.
The importance of prevention
in 2021, a total of 16,426 people had a crashed in these alcohol accidents, 165 of them lost their lives. On average, one person died almost every other day in such an accident. This alarm underlines the need for preventive measures to reduce alcohol -related accidents in road traffic. Measures could include more intensive information about the dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol and tightened controls on the roadside.
The events in Marl are a regrettable example of this problem. By immediately removing a blood sample and the confiscation of the 47-year-old's driver's license, the police show that such incidents are taken seriously and that the contact for a solution to this serious problem is.
For a comprehensive overview of the developments of alcohol -related traffic accidents in Germany and their statistics, the data is updated annually, and there is the possibility of viewing via platforms such as DetailsQuellen