Introduction
In Germany, some 19,000 traffic fatalities were registered in 1970. Since then this number has decreased by over half to 8,758 in 1996 (In comparison to the fatalities caused by crashes about 13,000 people commit suicide in Germany every year). This positive development did occur although the traffic density in the meantime has increased many times. The traffic safety potential has clearly increased due to a number of measures in car occupant protection, but also in rescue service, medical treatment, and traffic management
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