Lightning marathon

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The Blitzmarathon (also Blitzermarathon ) is a police action that usually lasts one day to monitor moving road traffic in Germany. It is used to combat excessive speed on the roads, one of the most common causes of accidents . The first lightning marathon took place on February 10, 2012 in North Rhine-Westphalia ; it has been carried out nationwide since October 10, 2013. The first Europe-wide campaign took place on April 16, 2015 and has been carried out regularly since then under the name Speedmarathon .

The police use the following measures:

The planned measuring points are usually announced beforehand via the media. However, controls are also to be expected at places not disclosed.

history

The first lightning marathon was held on February 10, 2012 as part of the long-term campaign of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia "Brake yourself - save your life!" The result prompted Interior Minister Ralf Jäger to run the second Blitz marathon on July 3, 2012. Citizens were asked to give anger points to places where they were annoyed by speeders or pushers. Citizen participation was great. The police then checked at 2,673 of the reported anger points. Due to the great success, the third Blitzmarathon took place on October 24, 2012, across borders in North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and the Netherlands . On June 4, 2013 the fourth Blitzmarathon started in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony. Bavaria had originally intended to participate, but canceled the campaign at short notice due to the current flood situation .

After the demonstrable successes of the actions, the interior ministers of the federal states adopted at the standing conference of interior ministers and senators of the federal states on 23/24. May 2013 in Hanover the decision to jointly carry out the 24-hour lightning marathon across national borders . The first lightning marathon was carried out nationwide on October 10, 2013. The second nationwide lightning marathon took place on September 18, 2014. A third took place on April 16, 2015, but due to the central memorial service for the victims of Germanwings flight 9525 , it was shortened by six hours and only ran from 6 a.m. to midnight. In Schleswig-Holstein the lightning marathon was also completely canceled because of the meeting of the G7 foreign ministers.

The lightning marathon planned for autumn 2015 was canceled because the police were too busy. It did not take place nationwide.

The marathon has existed in Europe since 2015. Another Europe-wide blitz marathon with more than 20 participating countries took place on April 21, 2016 and has been repeated regularly since then.

scope

At the first lightning marathon in North Rhine-Westphalia, the police checked around 456,000 road users across the country, 17,169 of whom were driving too fast.

At the first lightning marathon, which was held on October 10, 2013, 14,700 police officers checked the speed at more than 8,600 points nationwide for 24 hours from 6 a.m. More than three million vehicles were checked, around 83,000 were too fast. In Bavaria, checks were carried out at 1,500 control points for a week, from October 10 to 17, 2013.

During the second nationwide lightning marathon on September 18, 2014, more than 13,000 police officers were deployed at almost 7,500 measuring points throughout Germany. In 2014, the police recorded 93,000 speeding violations, although the number of drivers was roughly the same as in the previous year. This number is significantly higher than the 83,000 traffic offenders of the previous year.

At the Blitzmarathon 2015, however, there were fewer violations than in 2014. In 3,254,819 vehicles checked, the police found 91,262 speed violations.

successes

"Evaluations by the police authorities show that people also drive more slowly between the lightning marathons," said Interior Minister Ralf Jäger on October 2, 2013. The ratio of high speed violations to lower speed violations has changed in Cologne. In 2010 the proportion of high excesses was around 57 percent, in 2012 it was only around 30 percent. Since November 2011, the average altitude exceeded in Dortmund has decreased from 14 km / h to now 10 km / h.

criticism

The Duisburg traffic scientist Michael Schreckenberg does not consider the lightning marathon to be productive: "With such an action you do not generate insight , but obedience , which is quickly gone."

It is criticized that municipalities and states could also have an increased interest in the income from the one-time campaign, which is referred to as "rip-off". This argument is supported by references to the choice of the speed camera locations. Munich is mentioned as an example, where the speed cameras were set up in 2012 not according to accident risk, but according to volume potential.

The chairman of the police union ( GdP ) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Arnold Plickert, said: “The 24-hour lightning campaign is an excellent way to raise public awareness of the dangers of the lawn.” It would be a really ideal situation However, "if the police not only take speeders out of traffic that day, but if we are present on the street every day".

The head of accident research at the insurer , Siegfried Brockmann, criticizes the speed camera marathon in the UDV's BLOG: “... First, the one-day campaign is obviously useless and whether the discussions that have been set in motion will have an effect in the medium term is doubtful. Second, maybe you should try something that lasts all week. Then you could get used to the 'correct' speeds much better with a lasting effect ... "

Web links

Wiktionary: Blitzmarathon  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/video175607376/Gesch SPEEDECONTROLS-Blitzermarathon-in-18-Laendern- Europas.html
  2. ↑ https://www.n-tv.de/ratgeber/Hier-wird-heute-geblitzt-article20942525.html
  3. ↑ Blitz marathon . In: tagesschau.de . 19th November 2014.
  4. ↑ Speed controls in Europe: This is what drivers should know about the Blitz Marathon from Spiegel Online , accessed on April 21, 2016
  5. ↑ https://www.hessenschau.de/panorama/liste-mit-real-allen-260-blitzern-beim-speedmarathon,speedmarathon-108.html
  6. ↑ Driving too fast is killer number 1! February 10, 2012: The NRW police's 24-hour lightning marathon is supposed to save lives. In: Police North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved October 6, 2013 .
  7. ↑ a b Speed ​​camera marathon - police slow down speeders. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk . Archived from the original on October 14, 2013 ; Retrieved October 10, 2013 (Memento from the Internet Archive).
  8. ↑ a b Blitzmarathon II - Citizen participation was worth it! July 10, 2012: Interior Minister Ralf Jäger: It was a day of common sense. In: Police North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved October 6, 2013 .
  9. ↑ a b c Fourth lightning marathon in North Rhine-Westphalia: No mercy for speeders. In: WDR . Archived from the original on June 8, 2013 ; Retrieved October 6, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Resolution record of the nationwide lightning marathon. In: Lower Saxony . Retrieved October 6, 2013 .
  11. ↑ a b Balance of the lightning marathon: Police caught 93,000 speeding offenders. Spiegel Online , September 19, 2014, accessed September 19, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Blitz-Marathon April 2016: Date and measuring points . In: autobild.de .
  13. ↑ Speed controls : Police are planning a nationwide lightning marathon in April. Spiegel Online, March 31, 2015, accessed the same day
  14. ↑ Roger Lewentz : Frenzy on the streets is strictly punished ( memento of the original from April 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Infrastructure Rhineland-Palatinate from March 31, 2015 (last paragraph) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / isim.rlp.de
  15. ↑ Blitzermarathon 2015 - The meaning and purpose of 24-hour surveillance. April 16, 2015, accessed April 16, 2015 .
  16. ↑ NRW police cancels Blitzmarathon due to overload. Die Welt , September 30, 2015, accessed December 31, 2015 .
  17. ↑ Speed controls in Europe: This is what drivers should know about the Blitz Marathon from Spiegel Online , accessed on April 21, 2016
  18. ↑ https://www.hessenschau.de/panorama/liste-mit-real-allen-260-blitzern-beim-speedmarathon,speedmarathon-108.html
  19. ↑ 24-hour lightning marathon with citizen participation / Minister of the Interior Jäger: Action by the NRW police against road deaths goes into the second round. In: North Rhine-Westphalia . Retrieved October 6, 2013 .
  20. ^ Result of the lightning marathon - police caught 83,000 speeders nationwide. In: T-Online . Retrieved October 15, 2013 .
  21. ↑ Balance of the Blitzmarathon 2015 ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , isim.rlp.de, accessed on May 11, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / isim.rlp.de
  22. ↑ The successful Blitz-Marathon now nationwide. In: polizei.nrw.de. Retrieved October 6, 2013 .
  23. ↑ http://www.swr.de/landesschau-rp/gut-zu-wissen/erster-europaweiter-blitzmarathon-unerwuenschte-schnappschuesse/-/id=233210/did=15192184/nid=233210/9rfinx/ - on 21 April 2016 no longer retrievable and unarchived web resource.
  24. ↑ Michael Haberland: Lightning marathon for safety? "No, there is a flash where nothing happens" . In: Focus , September 17, 2014. 
  25. ↑ BLOG of the accident research of the insurers Speed ​​camera marathon: Was nothing except expenses?