Traffic accidents

Data on traffic accidents in Schleswig-Holstein

Description of fields

— ‘ID’ — Current number of the accident (one record per accident)
— ‘Uland’ — Land, here only ‘01’ = Schleswig-Holstein
— ‘UREGBEZ’ — always ‘0’
— ‘Ukreis’ — circle
— ‘UGEMEINDE’ — municipality
— ‘UJAHR’ — year of accident
— ‘UMONAT’ — month of accident
— ‘USTUNDE’ — accident hour
— ‘UWOCHENTAG’ — day of the week: 1 = Sunday, 2 = Monday, 3 = Dieday,... 6 = Saturday
— ‘UKATEGORIE’ — category of accident (criterion of classification is the most serious consequence of each accident): 1 = accident with killed persons, 2 = accident with serious injuries, 3 = accident with minor injuries
— ‘UART’ — type of accident: 1 = collision with driving/sustaining/resting vehicle, 2 = collision with forward/waiting vehicle, 3 = collision with vehicle moving side in the same direction, 4 = collision with oncoming vehicle, 5 = collision with vehicle turning/crossing, 6 = collision between vehicle and pedestrian, 7 = impact on road obstruction, 8 = agreement from road to right, 9 = agreement from lane to the left, 0 = accident of other kind
— ‘UTYP1’ — type of accident: 1 = driving accident, 2 = turning accident, 3 = bending/cross accident, 4 = crossing accident, 5 = accident caused by dormant traffic, 6 = accident in longitudinal traffic, 7 = other accident
— ‘ULICHTVERH’ — Light conditions: 0 = daylight, 1 = twilight, 2 = darkness
— ‘ISTRAD’ — accident with wheel: 1 if the accident involved at least one bicycle
— ‘actual car’ — accident by car: 1 if the accident involved at least one passenger car
— ‘Istfuss’ — accident with pedestrians: 1 if the accident involved at least one pedestrian
— ‘IstKrad’ — Accident with motorcycle: 1 if the accident involved at least one motorcycle, such as mofa, motorcycle/roller
— ‘IstGkfz’ — accident involving goods vehicles: 1 if the accident involved at least one truck with a normal body and a total weight of more than 3.5 tonnes, a truck with tank or special body, a tractor or other tractor (this category is included in ‘accident with other’ in 2016 and 2017)
— ‘other’ — accident with others: 1 if the accident involved at least one means of transport not mentioned above (e.g. bus or train)
— ‘USTRZUSTAND’ — Road condition: 0 = dry, 1 = wet/wet/slip, 2 = winter smooth
— ‘LINREFX’ — The geocoordinates of the location of the accident on the road section (UTM coordinate of the ETRS89 reference system, zone 32N)
— ‘LINREFY’
— ‘XGCSWGS84’ — The geo-coordinates of the accident location on the road section (geographical coordinates in decimal degree of reference system WGS84)
— ‘YGCSWGS84’

Data origin

This is an excerpt from the accident data for Germany https://unfallatlas.statistikportal.de/_opendata2021.html

Filtered to the entries where ‘Uland=01’ is. In the geocoordinates, comma was replaced by decimal point.

Further explanations on traffic accident data can be found on the page of the accident Atlas of the Federal and Land Statistical Offices.