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World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
Every year, the third Sunday of November is the ' World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims'.
Overall scale and individual devastation
This day in particular focuses on both the overall scale and the individual devastation caused by road deaths and injuries and the impact upon families and communities around the world. Almost 4,000 people are killed and many hundreds of housands injured on roads throughout the world every day. Many more have to cope with bereavement or the effects of injury and thus become part of the huge group of people affected by road carnage.
History
The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims was originated in 1993 by RoadPeace and adopted by the UN in 2005 as a response to road crash victims’ need for public recognition. Read more about how and why it began and how it has developed.
Remembrance activities
World Day of Remembrance events and services take place throughout the UK. Find out more about the types of activites are taking place or how to organise your own activity. If you are planning or know of an event and would like our help to publisice it, do let us know.
World day of Remembrance activities now take place in countries of every continent around the world. For more information about international activities visit http://www.worlddayofremembrance.org/ a website developed by Brigitte Chaudhry, Founder of RoadPeace and president of the European Federation of Road Traffic Victims (FEVR).
RoadPeace's World Day of Remembrance leaflet can be downloaded here.
This year, World Day is on Sunday, 21st November 2010.
