Sweet Streets, along with partner organizations Bike Utah and Spin, will be hosting an event for the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (WDoR) on Sunday, November 17th at Liberty Park. The WDoR is a global event including dozens of demonstrations across the US. The goal is to draw attention to the devastating cost of crashes and to advocate for proven strategies to decrease risk of death or injury, such as redesigning our streets to keep all users safe and to reduce vehicle speed. The event will be held at Liberty Park from 4-6 PM and will include tabling from partner organizations, an opportunity to contribute to a sidewalk chalk memorial, speakers, and a walk and candlelight vigil to a recent crash site near 700 S 700 E.

Schedule of events:

• 4:00 - 4:30 PM - Sidewalk Chalk Memorial and Organization Tabling

• 4:30 - 5:00 PM - Speaker Remarks

  • Sweet Streets: Julian Jurkoic

  • Bike Utah : Jordan Bartholomew

  • Save Not Pave: Micki Harris

  • Salt Lake City Council: Dan Dugan

• 5:00 - 5:30 PM - Walk to Crash Site and Candlelight Vigil

• 5:30 - 6:00 PM - Organization Tabling and Wrap-up

#WDoR2024 #TrafficViolenceIsPreventable #VisionZero

From the international WDoR website:

As with every year, the objectives of WDoR 2024 are to provide a platform for road traffic victims and their families to:

• remember all 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;

• advocate for better support for road traffic victims and victim families;

• 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. It is an actual pandemic, affecting primarily our vulnerable and our young, which in addition to the trauma of injury and bereavement has also a devastating economic impact for countries, communities and families. Therefore, during the Decade of Action 2021-2030 the World Day has an important role of helping to achieve the 50% road casualty reduction target.