On this & every subsequent day, let’s plan to REMEMBER, SUPPORT & ACT

The third Sunday in November is acknowledged yearly because the World Day of Remembrance for Street Site visitors Victims (WDRRTV). This yr, it’s noticed throughout the globe on November 20, 2022, with Justice as its theme. We invite you to assist honour and assist WDRRTV by internet hosting or registering an occasion, and by sharing the hashtag #WDoR2022 on social media. However you too can assist these efforts by merely making secure selections on the street to assist cut back preventable deaths and accidents.

Why it’s necessary to acknowledge WDRRTV yearly

For households and communities, day-after-day is a day that family members who’ve died or been injured are remembered – and sadly, day-after-day, we undergo 3,700 further deaths and tens of hundreds extra accidents around the globe.

That’s the reason the World Day of Remembrance, adopted by the United Nations in 2005, is about remembering, however it additionally about supporting victims and households, and taking motion to forestall future deaths and accidents on the roads. This yr, the World Well being Group (WHO) will likely be internet hosting a free world on-line WDoR occasion on November 18, 2022, with testimonials, statements from officers, and creative responses to the theme: REMEMBER. SUPPORT. ACT.

Find out how to assist WDRRTV

Many nationwide governments throughout the globe are recognizing the World Day of Remembrance for Street Site visitors Victims, however it’s the non-government organizations and native communities that usually present essentially the most shifting tributes and take advantage of seen plans to take motion.

Your group could also be holding an occasion, you possibly can be a part of a web based occasion, or maybe you might need to observe the World Day of Remembrance in your individual means – similar to writing a letter to your native newspaper or metropolis official concerning the World Day of Remembrance or studying extra concerning the influence of street crashes in your group. You might need to watch a video that the International Alliance of NGOs for Street Security created, or learn the report on which it’s primarily based, which particulars individuals’s experiences of street crashes (The Day Our World Crumbled: The Human Value of Inaction on Street Security).

Group involvement in WDRRTV

Though it is a day once we mirror on the very human and private facet of street crashes, the World Day of Remembrance can also be an ideal alternative for each group, each group, and each particular person to take motion to forestall future deaths and accidents.

We will renew and strengthen our resolve to forestall street deaths and accidents and to hunt out related info to advocate for and implement the simplest efforts in our communities.

We will get each info and inspiration from numerous assets such because the International Alliance of NGOs for Street Security, WHO’s International Plan for the Decade of Motion for Street Security, the Imaginative and prescient Zero Community, the FIA Basis, our personal Site visitors Damage Analysis Basis, the Asia Damage Prevention Basis, Chariots of Future, Households for Secure Streets, Affiliation for Secure Worldwide Street Journey, Amend, Irish Street Victims Affiliation, the North Basis, Kolling Institute and plenty of others.

All of us have a task to play in making our roads secure and guaranteeing our or another person’s family members get dwelling safely. Our selections matter, day-after-day, each time we get behind the wheel, leap on our bike, scooter or one other two-wheeled machine, or just step off the curb. Avoiding distraction, pace, fatigue, and impairment are selections we make once we use the roads, however it’s also an necessary alternative we make to advocate for a secure street system that protects all of us. The only factor we are able to all do on the World Day of Remembrance is to communicate up as a result of talking up can positively affect good coverage choices which might make our roads secure for everybody.

So, with fewer than 3,000 days left within the Decade of Motion for Street Security 2021-2030, day-after-day is necessary. On the World Day of Remembrance and every subsequent day, let’s plan to REMEMBER, SUPPORT and ACT.

Collectively, we might help forestall extra deaths and accidents on our roads.

Upcoming occasions

November 18, 2022: WHO World Day of Remembrance of Street Site visitors Victims Occasion. Register right here.

November 30, 2022: International Alliance of NGOs for Street Security, Free Webinar Utilizing the Excessive-Degree Assembly for Advocacy and Accountability, Register right here.  Earlier webinar One 12 months of the International Plan: On Observe or Off Goal? may be discovered right here.

March 6-10, 2023: Eighth International Assembly of Non-Governmental Organizations Advocating for Street Security and Street Victims, hybrid/San Salvador, El Salvador.

#MySafeRoadHome weblog writer: Bella Dinh-Zarr, TIRF Senior Advisor for Public Well being and Transportation educated in public well being and damage prevention and is a former Vice Chair of the U.S. Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB). She enjoys using her bicycle, strolling, skating, and dealing in direction of a transportation system that’s secure and moral for everybody.

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