RoadPeace
The national charity for road traffic victims.
How RoadPeace Began
RoadPeace is a national charity established in 1992 in response
to the overwhelming need for a national organisation supporting
road traffic victims and drawing attention to their lack of
rights and the disregard of their needs.
RoadPeace was a member of a two-year working party which looked
into the needs of road death bereaved together with Victim
Support, CRUSE, the police and others, resulting in a report
which has made 80 recommendations for better practices by
all agencies dealing with road death.
RoadPeace Now
RoadPeace is a member of FEVR, the European Federation of
Road Traffic Victims, which was formed in 1991 and now has
23 member organisations. The Federation has consultative status
at the UN. Apart from its research activities, it provides
a forum for its member associations to influence road traffic
policy at European level.
RoadPeace liaises with an ever increasing number of organisations
concerned with road traffic, bereavement and injury issues,
including the Pedestrians' Association, Sustrans, Transport
2000, FoE, CRUSE, NABS, TCF, Headway and others. RoadPeace
is a founder member of Victims' Voice (representing victims
of crimes against the person) the Pedestrians' Policy Group
and the Slower Speeds Initiative, also a member of PACTS,
the Transport Activists' Round Table and others.
RoadPeace Aims
To provide emotional and practical support to bereaved and
injured road traffic victims
To raise awareness of dangers on the road and encourage their
reduction
To conduct research into road danger and the impact of road
death and injury
RoadPeace Support
RoadPeace offers a practical and emotional support service
to the bereaved and injured. We can help victims through the
complex and confusing procedures following road death or injury.
Most RoadPeace members are also victims so we can provide
contact with others who have suffered a similar tragedy or
experience.
RoadPeace Provides
Helpline for victims
Advice leaflets and pamphlets
Representation on behalf of road victims
Campaigns to improve the law for actual and potential victims.
Input to victim and road safety forums, also legal and parliamentary
bodies
Promotion of Remembrance Services
Education programmes, including talks in schools and workplaces
Advice for the police and emergency services
Public awareness raising through the media
Strategies for reducing road danger
Over 300,000 people are killed or injured on Britain's
roads every year. There are 5 million crashes every year -
each one a potential death or injury. All but a few are preventable.
Road danger has become a bigger threat to British children's
lives and well-being than any illness or hazard.
RoadPeace Policy
Road Danger Reduction
RoadPeace believes that danger on the ro can only be dealt
with by tackling it at sours It believes in pursuing all measures
address irresponsible driving, and to educe and train road
users about their duties others. RoadPeace also presses 1
engineering of the road environment to redu danger and reclaim
our roads for mo vulnerable users.
Law Enforcement
RoadPeace campaigns for road death and injury to be taken
far more seriously by the authorities. It calls for greater
deterrents to dangerous driving, stricter law enforcement
and more appropriate charges and sentencing. It lobbies the
Home Office, the DETR and Parliament, and liaises with the
police and local authorities on road danger issues.
PO Box 279
London
NW10 3PW
Tel: 020-8838 5102
Fax: 020-8838 5103
Advice & Help Line: 020-8964 1021
info@roadpeace.org
www.roadpeace.org
Registered Charity No: 1020364
A member of the European Federation of Road Traffic Victims,
FEVR, which has consultative status at the UN
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