In 2025, 2,814 people died in road‑traffic accidents in Germany, according to preliminary figures released by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on Wednesday. That represents a 2 % increase or 44 more deaths than the 2,770 reported in 2024.
The number of injuries in 2025 remained roughly unchanged from the previous year, with 366,000 people hurt. Light injuries rose by 3,000 to 318,000 (+1 %), whereas severe injuries fell 4 % to 48,400 – the lowest level recorded since 1991, when injuries began to be classified separately as severe or mild.
Police counted about 2.5 million road‑traffic incidents in 2025, essentially the same as the year before (a 0.2 % decline). Among those, roughly 2.2 million involved only property damage, a figure very close to last year’s (down 0.3 %). Accidents that caused injury or death grew by 1 % to just over 293,000 cases.
Per capita, Mecklenburg‑Vorpommern led the country with 60 road fatalities per million residents, followed closely by Brandenburg with 50 per million. These figures are well below the national average of 34 per million. Germany’s city‑states – Berlin (10) and Hamburg (11) – as well as North Rhine‑Westphalia (26) and Saarland (27), also report lower per‑million death rates, largely owing to their settlement patterns. No separate data exist for Bremen for November and December 2025, so its figures were estimated for the national summary.
Detailed statistics for the period from January to November 2025 show that, for almost every type of road‑user, the number of fatalities increased compared to the corresponding period the previous year.
– People traveling by car or bicycle lost 37 and 18 lives, respectively – an increase of 4 % for each group.
– Registered motorbike riders, including light‑motorcycles, mopeds and motorcycles, saw 11 more deaths, up 28 %.
– Freight truck operators lost 7 casualties, a 7 % rise.
– Users of electric scooters suffered 6 additional fatalities, a jump of 25 %.
– Pedestrians were affected by 4 more deaths, a 1 % increase.
Conversely, deaths among users of officially registered motorbikes (light motorbikes, mopeds and motorcycles) fell by 41, a drop of 8 %.
In December 2025, approximately 25,300 people were injured in road‑traffic accidents in Germany – 3 % or 800 more injuries than in December 2024. Traffic deaths rose by five, reaching 220. Police recorded 208,600 road‑traffic incidents in December, 4 % higher than the same month a year earlier (an increase of 7,900 incidents).