Hessenatlas: Road Traffic Accidents and Fatalities by German Counties

Road traffic accident statistics for German counties, including counts of fatalities and injured persons. The data is provided as a Web Map Service (WMS) by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie. It was last updated on 2026-02-25.

Use Cases

• Map accident hotspots based on county-level geospatial data
• Analyze regional differences in traffic safety based on aggregated accident statistics
• Correlate accident rates with other regional demographic or infrastructure data

Strengths

• Data is provided by a national mapping and surveying authority (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie).
• The dataset was updated on 2026-02-25, suggesting recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Freshness

Last updated 2026-02-25 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Germany (county-level)