In game accidents several right ranges meet one another: the hunting right regulates conditions in the habitats of the game and the competencies in each case of the person entitled to hunt. The traffic right StVO regulates the behavior of the driver, here particularly in the sense of the requirement foresighted driving fashion and danger warning. The animal patent right animal law for the protection regulates handling and responsibility with animals, where animals living in the wild are enclosed as Particularly "§17 TschG specifies that no wrong and damage or death may be caused to animals without reasonable reason. For some time - not least due to the high and rising numbers of game accidents and their consequences - the right areas are increasingly more closely laid out for the avoidance of game accidents.

Game accidents as chance for new co-operation

It is remarkable that in things game guard hunt and animal protection are in the same way demanded, so that in the otherwise controversially discussed competencies the chance of a reform appears here.

Substantial economical damage

After a the number of the game accidents increased with some animal species by scarcely a third. "Round of 200,000 deer came between March 2004 and April 2005 on of Germany roads around the life - 11 per cent more than in the previous year. Each fifth deer from the official hunt distance statistics "is hunted" therefore in the traffic. Sad front runner is Lower Saxony also over 28.000 verunfallten deer - this corresponds scarcely quarter to the official distance list. In North Rhine-Westphalia the portion lies also over 30 per cent still more highly, which corresponds to 24,500 verunfallten animals. The officially seized collisions of wild pigs with motor vehicles increased in relation to the previous year particularly strongly: around approximately a third on approximately 21,000 animals. Besides strongly endangered by the traffic are Damwild with 3.000 and Rotwild with 2.500 practice-experienced animals."

High dark number and lack of statistics

It speaks some for the fact that these numbers are only "the point of the iceberg", since accidents with small game animals were hardly seized. Furthermore not all road users are by far teilkaskoversichert, so that the necessity is not given for the official accident admission. Further no federally uniform statistics are led, so that the collection is afflicted with numerous lack. To it it belongs about that game accidents in circle peripheral areas lead to partly substantial inaccuracies regarding the collection and allocation of the accidents. In the consequence points of most frequent accidents remain often unerfasst, or however from the well-known numbers no consequence arises, since the administration of the competence of the neighbouring district goes out.

Care game animals as consequence

Not seized is besides the high number of the not killed, but became an orphan and in need of care game animals become. However from this annually an economical million-damage, there these animals at expense by veterinary surgeons, develops private people or the public to be often supplied must. This leads to a subsequent problem: maintained game animals are coined/shaped inevitably on humans. This false coinage leads to a curing of the natural shyness. In the case of the later Auswilderung these animals are still less in a the position to avoid roads and danger zones. As animals maintained by humans they feel particularly drawn in the winter time of distress rather to settlements. Such false characteristics pass it on at With annually thousands of maintained game animals the society breeds therefore the problem of the game accidents - except by the handling of the drivers - artificially near.

Main cause: superelevated speed

Cause of accident number unity is still according to German Journalists' Federation superelevated speed: "A deer does not take near-brew-sends car starting from a speed of approximately 70 km/h to no more true and runs in spoiling", thus Borchert. "The danger for the driver is enormous", confirmed Peter Meyer, General German Automobile Association. An attained full growth wild pig strikes with the collision with 50 km/h snaps vehicle with the weight of approximately two tons in, which comes equal a Nashorn. "Drivers should absolutely describe "attention game change" to consider and in forest-rich areas be particularly attentive", thus Meyer.Auf of this basis present themselves - mentioned initially - the view meanwhile increasingly as outdated. No more the animal is seen than causer; rather humans are taken by his maladjusted behavior in the goal of the efforts. Newer strategies against game accidents aim therefore at as all a factors of risk as possible.

For this count:

• Decrease of the driving speed - influence of the driver
• Decrease of excessive stock remainders which is available if necessary at game
• To dismantling of "become green sealing surfaces" in close proximity to game points of most frequent accidents. Distance of which refuse a penetrating to the game, so that it evades over the roads.
• Conscious making of game points of most frequent accidents in the population in the catchment area of the problem zone
• Politico-educational basis work in schools, kindergartens in the sense of an holistic, environmentalfair behavior in the public area
• Use of existing multiplicators (animal protection, citizens' initiatives etc.) and extension around the interests of the game protection in the traffic, distance sponsorships etc.

Political consequences

In the year 2004 the committee for road safety of the German road safety advice particularly took care of the problem of the game accidents. The past concepts, and the road sign "attention game change" were regarded as insufficient. Also telematische plants to the of the game were judged as a little helpful, which them seen on the whole more to depletion effects than to causal problem solution to contribute. Apart from a poster action the brochure "good is slow than game" from German Journalists' Federation and General German Automobile Association a component of the concept.

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