Hessenatlas: Road Traffic Accidents with Light Injuries by Government District

Hessenatlas provides a Web Map Service (WMS) for road accident statistics across government districts. The dataset focuses on the number of lightly injured persons involved in traffic accidents. It is published by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and was last updated on 2026-02-25.

Use Cases

• Map accident hotspots based on government district boundaries.
• Analyze regional disparities in road safety outcomes based on accident statistics.
• Support policy evaluation for traffic safety initiatives based on injury data.

Strengths

• Data is provided via a standardized Web Map Service (WMS) for geospatial integration.
• Last updated on 2026-02-25, indicating a recent data point.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Freshness

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

Geography

Government districts (likely within Germany, based on source organization).