IRTE

Road deaths and injuries are sudden, violent, traumatic events, and their impact is long-lasting, often permanent. Each year, millions of newly bereaved and injured people from every corner of the world are added to the many Millions already suffering as the result of a road crash.

The sense of grief and distress of this huge group of people is all the greater because many of the victims are young, because many of the crashes could and should have been prevented and because the response to road death and injury and to road crash victims is often experienced as inadequate, cruelly unsympathetic, and inappropriate to a loss of life or quality of life.

This special Remembrance Day therefore responds to the great need of road crash victims for public recognition
of their loss and pain.

The United Nations in the General Assembly in October 2005 declared that the 3rd Sunday of each November would be marked as the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, and requested member countries and international community to give appropriate acknowledgement for victims of road traffic crashes and their families.

IRTE as a member of the United Nations Global Road Safety Collaboration has taken this initiative to observe this World Remembrance Day across the country.
IRTE is supported in this endeavour by the Road Peace, UK, as well as the European Federation of Road Traffic Victims (FEVR).

Though the 3rd Sunday falls on November 16th to commemorate this day the IRTE & Delhi Traffic Police organized a special event at the Traffic Pavilion, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi on Saturday 15th November 2008 at 11.00 am.

Dr. M C Mishra, Head Trauma Care Centre-
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)

The Addl. Commissioner of Police, Mr. Muktesh Chander IPS ,participated in the Workshop, Mr. Rohit Baluja, President- IRTE gave information about the World Day of Remembrance, Dr. M C Mishra, Head Trauma Care Centre-AIIMS and Dr. Amit Gupta, Asst. Professor of Surgery-AIIMS addressed the gathering, Dr. Yatindra Kharbanda, Senior Orthopaedic Surgeon- Apollo Hospital talked about the need of immediate medical care to road crash victims.

The most important highlight of the event was to listen to accident victims/families who related their experience of the suffering road accident victims go through.

Road Accident Victim Sharing his pain and suffering following his accident

Theatre group of a local college performing a play to sensitise the gathering on helping road accident victims and also generating awareness on the importance of following traffic rules to avoid injuries

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