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The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDR) is commemorated on the third Sunday of November each year - to remember the many millions killed and injured on the world's roads, together with their families and many others also affected, as well as reflect on the tremendous burden and cost of this daily continuing disaster.
World report on road traffic injury prevention, 2004
Global status report on road safety 2009
Global status report on road safety 2013
Report by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on the great numbers of UK citizens who are bereaved by a road death during their lifetime, 2011
Events around the globe by continent and year:
View summary of World Day 2012 events
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Please submit details of your planned events for World Day 2013
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FEVR leaflet for UN Road Safety Week
2nd UN Global Road Safety Week in May 2013
This Week will be held from 6-12 May, in the framework of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. The theme is “Pedestrian Safety”, which is supported by the 2013 World Day theme: “Let’s have roads that are safe for all”.
http://www.who.int/roadsafety/week/2013/en/index.html
http://fevr.org/new/2013/04/act-dafely-at-level-crossings/