Wie gefährlich der Schulweg ist, zeigt diese Deutschland-Karte

Patrick Hannemann

01/27/20261:20 p.m

Many children travel to school alone every day. With an interactive map of Germany you can find a statistically safe route.

The daily journey to school should of course be as safe as possible for the children, especially if the little ones travel independently. But how can parents actually ensure this? There are different options:

Walk the route to school several times with the child
show the best places to cross the street
Plan detours if there are places without a footpath
ensure good visibility for clothing and satchels
practice correct behavior in traffic

But how do you find the safest route from home to the school building? The interactive map with the school route check offers you a first clue:

This is how Blicki’s school route check works

Schoolchild looks across the street — Children have to be particularly careful on the way to school; not every route is equally safe. Kerkez/Getty Images

The school route check is a map from the nationwide initiative “Blicki Blickt’s”. This aims to “that children are safe on the road and develop routines that help them make the right decisions in dangerous situations”the website says.

Part of it is that interactive map of Germany. Parents can then quickly see which roads statistically have the most frequent road traffic incidents. The map data comes from Destatis.

You can simply select a desired image section and then zoom in to find your region. Alternatively just enter start and finish on the way to school. Fictional example:

Start: Hasenweg 42, 12345 Musterstadt
Goal: Pestalozzi-Alle 12, 54321 Stadt Muster

Then choose which means of transport will be used: car, bike or on foot. After a short calculation, the route is drawn on the map.

School route check from Blicki — With the school route check, the incidents recorded along the route can be quickly checked. Screenshot/CHIP

You can now click on the different red dots along the blue line to find out more information about the accidents. The good news: In the rarest of cases these are less dramatic stories, such as minor property damage.

Of course, the statistical distribution of the points cannot provide any prediction as to whether the Never involve children in an accident become. The map is intended for orientation purposes only.

Perhaps the route can be adjusted at one point or another so that it goes through a quieter area, as it is often the major traffic arteries and junctions that are affected.

After School route check in the browser However, you should definitely walk the route together in order to identify possible risk points on site.

Another similar card is the accident atlas for Germany. However, only incidents involving personal injury are documented here – so you may be able to adjust the assessment of the planned route to school again.