November 15th: World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

Details: Created: Friday, 04 December 2020 15:39

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH

World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

189.810 deaths in 25 years is not just a number. They have faces and stories.

Numbers are human beings who are no longer here. Every day of the year, 20 people die in traffic in Argentina. They are affections, feelings, projects, contributions to society, lost forever. Moreover, indescribable sufferings for those who love them, whose lives have changed forever, plus millions of material losses for the whole society. In addition to the millions of injured, many of them will live with disabilities for the rest of their lives.

No war, catastrophe or natural disaster has caused such a tragedy in our country.

Every day 20 fatal victims: here 20 faces of 2019. Watch the video.

The most important tribute to the victims is doing what’s necessary to stop these preventable deaths from repeating themselves. Keeping up with the request from the United Nations under the “Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011/20” to halve deaths in traffic on this decade, pending objective in our country, Luchemos por la Vida calls up on each and every one of the citizens, and especially the competent authorities, to take on their responsibility with concrete actions to diminish significantly the number of deaths and injured people.

Road safety must be supported as a matter of State policy; through coordinate efforts and joint decisions by the national, provincial and municipal authorities, competent on the subject. The following measures are required urgently:

Exponentially multiply enforcement in streets and roads, which ensure the practical validity of the Law (for example alcohol checks,speed controls, seat belts, helmets, child restraint system, etc.) and effective sanctions to offenders.
To legislate the crimes against road safety and speed reductions.
To achieve an adequate training and a serious and responsible issuing of drivers’ licenses across the country.
To make continued and systematic road safety education a reality in study programs and in the classrooms of pre-school, elementary and secondary schools across the country.

An urban planning that enables orderly and fluid traffic and investments necessary to achieve a safe and efficient public transport (rails, roads, etc.)

We all have a responsibility in stopping the road deaths pandemic.