WORLD DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR ROAD TRAFFIC VICTIMS
Sunday November 19th 2007 is designated World Day of Remembrance for RoadTraffic Victims. Services of remembrance and hope will be taking place across the world.
Please take this opportunity to pray for crash victims and their friends and families. We ask too, for prayers too for members of the emergencyservices, medical workers and those working in road safety education andawareness initiatives.
World-wide 1.26million people are killed in road crashes every year (that is 3450 every day!). Terrorist attacks and plane crashes may get the publicity-why are road deaths not treated with the same sense of outrage?
The first fatal road victim Bridget Driscoll was hit and killed by a "horseless carriage" at Crystal Palace in London in 1896. At her inquest, the coroner said, "we must ensure this tragedy is never repeated".
The struggle between people and power is the struggle between memory and forgetting and we must not forget the many millions of people who have met death or life changing injury on the roads. Road deaths are not natural deaths and should not be allowed to happen.
EVERYBODY KNOWS SOMEBODY KILLED OR INJURED ON OUR ROADS
RoadPeace helpline 0845 4500 355 www.roadpeace.org
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I HAVE JUST LOST A MEMBER OF MY FAMILY TO A ROAD ACCIDENT SHE HAD BROKEN DOWN AND WAS HIT FROM BEHIND BY A DRIVER WHO ADMITTED TAKING HIS EYES OFF THE ROAD FOR 16 SECS AND HE WALKED FREE FROM COURT WITH A 12MTH BAN AND £1000 FINE WERE IS THE JUSTICE HE WAS A YOUNG DRIVER AGED 25
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