On Sunday 20 November, World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2022 (WDoR22) will put the spotlight on JUSTICE.
Traffic law enforcement, thorough investigation after a crash to find out if a crime was committed and to prevent recurrence, criminal prosecution where appropriate and civil compensation are all part of the justice system. When carried out seriously, fairly and consistently, such a system is what road crash victims who have been injured or had a family member killed as the result of someone’s law–breaking or negligence deserve and wish for, since it also represents a main factor of prevention and this would mean that lessons are learnt from their tragedies so that they may not be repeated.
We encourage iRAP partners to support this annual commemorative event; to remember the innocent lives lost, support the global call to end preventable road traffic crashes and share your action to save lives.
iRAP continue de soutenir cette journée importante, alors que nous prenons le temps de nous souvenir et d'agir (#RememberSupportAct) pour des routes classées 3 étoiles ou plus, au bénéfice de tous les usagers de la route.
A number of events will be taking place in the lead up to and during #WDoR2022, including on November 18, join WHO for a webinar on the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims – Inscrivez-vous ici
Access more events on the WDoR website.
As every year, the objectives of WDoR 2022 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.
As we have entered the Deuxième décennie d'action pour la sécurité routière, the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims will continue to play an important part in highlighting the very reason for all the necessary actions outlined in the Plan mondial.
Avec le soutien de donateurs tels que Fondation FIA, iRAP collaborera avec des partenaires du monde entier pour garantir que les nouvelles routes soient sûres et que les routes existantes à haut risque bénéficient d’un financement et soient rénovées à une échelle significative. Ensemble, nous veillerons à ce que tous les usagers de la route puissent se déplacer en toute sécurité, conformément aux grands enjeux mondiaux axés sur la sécurité routière, la santé des enfants, le climat, les transports, l’égalité des sexes et la mobilité urbaine.
Au cours de la prochaine décennie, l’organisation s’attachera stratégiquement à mettre à profit l’approche globale et les outils de iRAP afin de nouer des partenariats visant à produire un impact d’ici 2030 dans le cadre d’initiatives prioritaires clés, dans le but d’atteindre une envergure suffisante et de maximiser le nombre de vies sauvées.
Additional resources available to help:
- New resources for 5-star RAPs – An online package of new Ressources pour les RAP 5 étoiles, funded by FedEx, has launched to support road assessment programmes around the world eliminate high-risk roads and save lives.
- RAP Tools menu – iRAP and its partners have developed a suite of tools that use the méthodologie iRAP pour soutenir la gestion de la sécurité des infrastructures aux niveaux mondial et local.
- New and improved Road Safety Toolkit – Building on decades of road safety research, the Toolkit is freely available and provides a one-stop road safety resource to help develop safety plans for pedestrians, motorcyclists, bicyclists, car and heavy vehicle occupants and public transport users on the causes and prevention of road crashes.
- Overview Summary of Countries’ Progress – this summary shares national safer roads activity for 160 countries and the human and economic benefit of achieving UN Targets 3 and 4 by 2030. A supporting web-based table can be filtered to a country, key word or multiple countries based on income level or global region.
- Classement par étoiles iRAP du Guide mondial de conception des rues de la NACTO-GDCI resource is free and here to help you design safe streets in your community, to help save lives and improve sustainable mobility for all road users. This resource helps promote the safety, health, economic, and environmental benefits of lower speeds around the world.
- NACTO-GDCI and iRAP animations – demonstrating how lower speed streets can save lives (produced by Vision Zero Sergek).
- iRAP has released its Plan for the Second Decade of Action for Road Safety pour sauver plus de 2 000 000 de personnes de la mort ou de blessures, rendre plus sûrs plus de 200 000 km de routes et générer des investissements de 1 TP9T200 milliards de dollars américains dans les infrastructures routières afin de sauver des vies au cours des 10 prochaines années.
- Download the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety here.
Nos cœurs sont avec les familles des victimes d'accidents de la route et les premiers intervenants en cette Journée Mondiale du Souvenir. Nous vous promettons – notre travail quotidien est effectué en souvenir de vos proches disparus, nous vous soutenons et nous nous engageons à agir pour faire tout notre possible, avec nos partenaires, afin d'éliminer les routes à haut risque.