This Sunday (June 13th), vigils at the respective accident sites are to commemorate three pedestrians who recently died in traffic in Berlin. An alliance of environmental and transport associations, consisting of the VCD traffic club, the pedestrian lobby association FUSS eV and the Changing Cities association that emerged from the bicycle referendum, called for the demonstrations.
The first vigil is registered for 4.30 p.m. at the corner of Riesaer and Nossener Straße in Hellersdorf. There, on May 25, a 19-year-old was run over by a tram – according to preliminary information from the police when the light was red for him.
Another vigil at 5.30 p.m. on the corner of Bölschestrasse / Lindenallee in Friedrichshagen is to commemorate the 90-year-old who was rammed by a driver while backing up in mid-May and fell so badly with her walker that she was in hospital two weeks later died.
During the third vigil in Tempelhof, the 96-year-old man is to be remembered who was rammed by a truck turning right on May 21 and partially run over after the fall. The senior died last Thursday of his serious injuries.
According to the police, the truck was from Borussia- to Ringbahnstraße turned right. According to the registrants, the vigil is planned for 7 p.m. on the corner of Tempelhofer Damm / Ringbahnstraße near the Tempelhof train station.
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To commemorate the victims of the accident, the organizers want to put up a white figure at the location of the accident – comparable to the “ghost wheels” used to remember fatally injured cyclists. “We do not understand why we are holding on to a traffic system that kills 40 to 50 people every year in Berlin alone,” said Heiner von Marschall, state chairman of the VCD Nordost, in a press release. “The victims were mostly on foot or by bike. And as a rule, it is cars that kill, ”it continued. “The public space must be converted from a car-friendly city to a human-friendly city, so that we can all move freely in our city safely, unhindered and without endangering life and limb.”
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The total number of traffic accidents in Berlin in the Corona year 2020 fell significantly compared to the previous year, after having increased for years. However, the number of fatalities rose year-on-year from 40 to 50, with the victims mostly walking or cycling.
According to Tagesspiegel information, 21 people have been killed on the streets of the capital since the beginning of this year. Six of them were on foot, five on bicycles, and one rode a motorcycle.
In addition, a total of seven car occupants died, mostly from frenzy. The most recent accident with two fatalities occurred on Friday when a truck crashed into the end of a traffic jam on the A113 in Treptow.
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