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To: WillP who wrote (129561)	8/3/2005 4:12:08 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793891

WillP, In the report I sent to Jochen on this subject the author looked at alcohol laws and Slovakia was singled out. States with low tolerance for alcohol have fewer deaths and those that are permissive do poorly. Slovakia had a strict law on blood alcohol, but its rarely enforced and they had 46.3 deaths per billion kilometers. Germany has a weaker law, but it is strictly enforced and results in a much lower fatality rate (11.1). East Germany inherited West German laws on that subject and the country as a whole fairs very well. Jochen - any regional breakout data? John

To: WillP who wrote (129561)	8/4/2005 1:08:54 AM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 793891

Is there a big difference in the proportion of deaths in old East Germany as opposed to the western two-thirds of Germany? Hm, not an easy question. I don't remember having seen any statistics with a regional breakdown of road accidents. Cursorily I know that the situation is bad in some rural areas in East Germany, e. g. Brandenburg. Young drivers there like to drink, drive fast and many roads are tight with trees left and right, a sometimes quite harmful combination. Currently about 1800 of the 7700 road deaths each year are caused by hitting a tree. ... prompting my suspicions that antiquated roads could account for the higher rates. After the reunification about 2000 billion dollars have been pumped into East Germany, a lot of it for upgrading the infrastructure. Most major roads are modern now.