Traffic signs and traffic facilities: Report damage

Defective or improperly functioning traffic signs or traffic equipment can become a danger on the road.

If you notice a fault or damage, you can report it to the road traffic authority or the road construction authority.

In the event of acute danger, you can also inform the police or the local authority.

This may apply, for example:

• Traffic lights / traffic signals
  • Failure
  • Clocking incorrect
  • Individual lights defective
  • Call button defective
  • Signal tone for blind and visually impaired people defective
  • Traffic light pole twisted or crooked
• Traffic signs or road signs
  • Traffic sign destroyed, soiled or stuck on
  • Road sign with anti-constitutional symbols
  • Faded traffic sign
  • Traffic sign does not reflect at night
  • Mast twisted or crooked
  • Traffic sign overgrown
• faulty road markings
• Defects on
  • the lighting of pedestrian crossings or zebra crossings
  • Parking ticket machines
  • Barriers, barrier posts and barrier railings

• § 45 Road Traffic Regulations (StVO)

You report a fault or damage to the road traffic or road construction authority, the local authority or the police.

• Describe the damage.
• Specify the exact location.
• Ideally, you should document the damage with a photo. You must ensure that you own the rights to the photo and that no persons or number plates are recognisable.

Road construction offices in Schwerin, Stralsund and Neustrelitz, district administrators, mayors of the independent and large district towns and the mayors of Güstrow, Neustrelitz, Parchim and Waren as the responsible road traffic authorities