World Day of Remembrance Events Urge Safety
VISION ZERO NETWORK: Imagine city, state, and federal leaders having access to a proven vaccine for a public health crisis that took the lives of more than 1.3 million people worldwide each year. Yet, for some reason, they did not utilize it to the fullest extent. Instead, they focused on encouraging personal responsibility to try to lessen the damage, while looking past the influential, higher-level strategies that only they could institute to ensure health and safety.
This is the experience for many who gathered across the globe on the 25th annual World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims to memorialize loved ones lost to preventable traffic deaths. More U.S. communities than ever participated on November 15, 2020, to urge local, state, and federal leaders to shake off the widespread complacency toward more than 1.3 million lives lost – and many millions more deeply impacted – in traffic crashes around the world each year. This includes an average of 40,000 traffic deaths in the U.S. each year, with a disproportionate number of people killed while walking and biking.
Denver, CO, has a Week of Remembrance: During the week of November 15th – 21st, Denver Department of Transportation & Infrastructure and Denver Streets Partnership hosted a virtual Facebook event to honor victims of traffic crashes and their families, and reaffirm our commitment to the fundamental principles of Vision Zero and making our streets safer for everyone, together.