Traffic accidents in Ostrava
A busy junction in front of the house means more than noise. Which Ostrava neighbourhoods have repeated injury accidents near homes, how to read the police data and what to check for a specific address.
What we count
The Czech Police record the place of every traffic accident. We take the accidents in which someone was injured or died, and for every address we find how many happened close to it in recent years. For a neighbourhood we then compute the share of addresses where such accidents repeat.
Neighbourhoods with the most addresses near frequent accidents
Where traffic accidents happen most in Ostrava
- 14 % of addresses near frequent accidents Moravská Ostrava Moravská Ostrava a Přívoz
- 7 % of addresses near frequent accidents Přívoz Moravská Ostrava a Přívoz
- 5 % of addresses near frequent accidents Mariánské Hory Mariánské Hory a Hulváky
- 5 % of addresses near frequent accidents Zábřeh Ostrava-Jih
- 5 % of addresses near frequent accidents Poruba Poruba
- 4 % of addresses near frequent accidents Vítkovice Vítkovice
- 3 % of addresses near frequent accidents Hrušov Slezská Ostrava
- 3 % of addresses near frequent accidents Muglinov Slezská Ostrava
- 2 % of addresses near frequent accidents Hrabůvka Ostrava-Jih
- 1 % of addresses near frequent accidents Svinov Svinov
How to read the ranking
Accidents cluster in a few places: main roads, large junctions, crossings over four-lane roads and the surroundings of tram and bus hubs. A neighbourhood crossed by such a road ranks high even when it is quiet two streets away. Neighbourhoods missing from the ranking have no address near frequent accidents.
So do not read the ranking as a grade for the whole neighbourhood, but as a hint where to look more closely at a specific street.
What to check for a specific address
- The way to school and nursery: walk it. How many crossings are there, do they have lights, and does it cross a main road?
- The way to the stop: most pedestrians are hit near stops and on crossings over several lanes.
- The street in front of the house: a through road, or a residential zone with speed bumps? Five minutes at rush hour show the difference.
- Seniors: a longer green light, an island in the middle of the crossing and a bench on the way matter more than the distance in metres.
- Bike and scooter: see whether a path away from the main road leads to the park or the school.
Frequently asked questions
Which Ostrava neighbourhoods have the most traffic accidents?
The ranking on this page orders neighbourhoods by the share of addresses with repeated injury accidents close by in recent years. The top tends to be neighbourhoods with main roads and large junctions, not necessarily the most densely built ones.
Which accidents are counted?
Only those in which someone was injured or died, from the traffic accident statistics of the Czech Police. Accidents with material damage only are left out, so the ranking shows places dangerous to people, not to cars.
Does a neighbourhood at the top of the ranking mean it is dangerous?
No. The ranking says how many addresses lie next to a spot where accidents repeat. Most streets in such a neighbourhood are calm; what matters is the specific street and the junction you will cross every day.
