English-German translations for road accident

• Verkehrsunfall der
  Gestern sind bei einem schweren Verkehrsunfall im Gotthard-Tunnel neun Menschen ums Leben gekommen. Nine people died yesterday in the St Gotthard tunnel because of a road accident.
  Jeder Verkehrsunfall wird nachgestellt, und man prüft dann, wie es denn zu diesem Unfall kommen konnte. Every road accident is reconstructed and it is investigated how such an accident could have occurred.
  Jedes Jahr sind 500 000 Kraftfahrer in der Europäischen Union in einen Verkehrsunfall im Ausland verwickelt. As many as 500 000 drivers in the European Union are victims of road accidents abroad every year.
• Verkehrsunglück das

Definition of road accident

• A collision on a road, typically involving one or more motor vehicles, but also including cyclists and pedestrians knocked down by vehicles

Related words

• road race
• road surfacing
• road racer
• railroad track
• broad reach
• road space rationing
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• Black Forest High Road