MARGAO: Even as the World Day of Remembrance for road traffic victims (WDR) is being observed on November 20, GOACAN has appealed to the road safety traffic management committees of all the panchayats and Municipal Councils (RSTMC) to take on the goal of helping achieve the 50 percent road casualty reduction target for this decade.
Roland Martins, Convenor of GOACAN said that every year, the objectives of WDR 2022 are to provide a platform for road traffic victims and their families to remember all the 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, for better support for road traffic victims and victims’ families and to promote evidence-based actions to prevent and eventually stop further road traffic deaths and injuries.
“Every year, millions more road victims are added to the current toll of over 50 million killed and hundreds of millions injured since the first road death 125 years ago last August – a disaster that continues day in and day out in all countries of the world,” he added, calling it a pandemic with a devastating economic impact for countries, communities and families.
