摘要：
    德国有关部门于4月4日公布的一项官方统计数字表明，该国驾驶员在100年前因交通事故而死亡的可能性要比2005年时高出56倍。这一数据显示，目前德国驾驶员的行车安全程度较之以前有了大幅度的提高。
    German drivers were 56 times more likely to be killed on the roads 100 years ago than in 2005, official data showed on Tuesday.

    德国有关部门于4月4日公布的一项官方统计数字表明，该国驾驶员在100年前因交通事故而死亡的可能性要比2005年时高出56倍。这一数据显示，目前德国驾驶员的行车安全程度较之以前有了大幅度的提高。

    据路透社4月4日报道，德国联邦统计办公室表示，在1907年也就是该国工程师卡尔·奔驰取得汽车发明专利的大约20年后，德国全年总共发生了4864起交通事故，有145人在这些车祸中丧生，而受伤者则有2419人。到目前为止，德国的交通事故统计历史已达百年之久，而这些数字之所以被公诸于众，也正是为了庆贺这个特殊的“百岁华诞”。

    德国联邦统计办公室还指出，德国全国的注册汽车数量已经从1906年时的27026辆猛增到去年的5630万辆，增长幅度高达2083倍。但在同一时期内，因交通事故而死亡的人数仅上升了37倍。去年在德国一共有5362人在车祸中失去生命，延续了自车祸死亡数字在1970年达到点后的下降趋势，那一年因此而死亡的人数为21332人。对此，该统计办公室表示：“这的确是一个好的发展趋势，而官方统计数字在其中也做出了一定的贡献，人们通过它可以及时了解各种交通事故的发生情况，并对其进行仔细分析。”

    German drivers were 56 times more likely to be killed on the roads 100 years ago than in 2005, official data showed on Tuesday.

    In the year up to 1907, some 20 years after the automobile was patented by German engineer Karl Benz, there were 4,864 traffic accidents in which 145 people were killed and 2,419 injured, the Federal Statistics Office said.

    The data were released to mark the 100th anniversary of German traffic statistics.

    The number of vehicles registered in Germany surged from 27,026 in 1906 to 56.3 million last year, a 2,083-fold increase. But road deaths rose by a factor of only 37, the Office said.

    Last year, 5,362 people were killed on the roads, continuing a downward trend from a peak of 21,332 in 1970.

    "This is a positive development to which official data through its ongoing reporting and analysis of accidents has certainly made a contribution," the statistics office said.

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