2024 World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

Caroline Russell AM moved, and Bassam Mahfouz AM seconded the following motion:

“This Assembly recognises the 2024 World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims on 17 November.

We also recognise Road Safety Week which this year runs from 17 to 23 November and was founded by the charity Brake, who work tirelessly to support road crash victims and reduce road deaths and serious injuries in road crashes.

As an Assembly we would like to pay our respects to the 95 people who were killed on London roads last year, and offer our condolences to their families, friends and communities.

We also mourn the 25 people who also lost their lives but are not included in the police record of collisions that have led to death and injuries (Stats 19), including those killed on private roads and in private car parks.

And we regret the 3,615 people who were seriously hurt, many of whom will have suffered life-changing injuries.

We would like to thank Brake, the Sarah Hope Line, road danger reduction campaigners Road Peace, Action Vision Zero and the Road Danger Reduction Forum for all their campaigning work in supporting Vision Zero and supporting victims of collisions on London’s roads, and their families.

We call on the Mayor to positively engage with these campaigners and charities and their calls and ask him to raise their demands for the establishment of a Road Safety Investigation Branch, equivalent to the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, with the new Government.

We also ask the Mayor to urgently prioritise bringing forward his Vision Zero Action Plan 2.”

Following debate and upon being put to the vote, the motion was agreed unanimously.