World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

 The statistic that “ of all-cause mortality, road traffic injury remains the leading cause of death for children and young people ” is straight-forward and haunting. That’s why we let it speak for itself and directly use it as the main message of our “Lost talents” campaign . Get the guidelines for the 2025 Campaign!

 Today, on the The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims we have a special guest. Every year, the world’s roads take over a million young lives. A million young athletes, artists, and dreamers who will never reach their full potential.  

  As every year, the objectives of WDoR 2025 are to provide a platform for road traffic victims and their families to: remember all people killed and seriously injured on the roads; acknowledge the crucial work of the emergency services; draw attention to the generally trivial legal response to culpable road deaths and injuries and advocate for an appropriately serious response; advocate for better support for road traffic victims and victim families; promote evidence-based actions to prevent and eventually stop further road traffic deaths and injuries Every year, millions more road victims are added to the current toll of over 50 million killed and hundreds of millions injured since the first road death. It is an actual pandemic, affecting primarily our vulnerable and our young, which in addition to the trauma of injury and bereavement has also a devastating economic impact for countries, communities and families. Therefore, during the Decade of Action 2021-2030 the World Day has ...

The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDR) is commemorated on the third Sunday of November each year. It is a high-profile global event to remember the many millions who have been killed and seriously injured on the world’s roads and to acknowledge the suffering of all affected victims, families and communities – millions added each year to countless millions already suffering: a truly tremendous cumulative toll. This Day has also become an important tool for governments and all those whose work involves crash prevention or response to the aftermath of crashes, since it offers the opportunity to demonstrate the enormous scale and impact of road deaths and injuries , call for an end to the often trivial and inappropriate response to road death and injury and advocate for urgent concerted action to stop the carnage.  On World Day we too pay tribute to the dedicated emergency crews, police and medical professionals, who deal daily with the traumatic aftermath o...

16 November is World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. Dr Etienne Krug, Chair of the UN Road Safety Collaboration and Director of the WHO Department of Health Determinants, Promotion and Prevention, shares his vision for safer roads and healthier people.