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Worldwide Commemoration day of Victims in Traffic Accidents
On sunday 15 November 2015 took place a ceremony at Fuente de las Batallas in Granada for the Worldwide Commemoration day of Victims in Traffic Accidents.
The Worldwide Commemoration day of Victims in Traffic Accidents was celebrated for the first time in 1993 in United Kingdom. Since then, a large number of countries, under the coordination of NGO´s, commemorate this day.
On 26 october 2005, UN Organization assumed a resolution to call the goverments to assign the third sunday of november of every year to celebrate this commemoration.
The celebration of this day, gives the opportunity to arise conciousness in society about the consequences for persons and broken families that traffic accidents causes, the economic cost that arrange,and the necessity of goverments and society of investing in PREVENTION, because more than the 90% of them are due to human errors: speed, alcohol or drugs and distractions mainly.
Don´t forget that, every year 1,25 million people die in traffic accidents, that makes traffic accidents the eighth worldwide cause of death, but the first in young people, as the last report of the World Health Organization reveals.
The City Council of Granada, through María Francés as Council of Citizen´s Protection and Mobility, and a large group of technicians, one more year, have attended this emotional commemoration, organised by STOP Accidents and the Provincial Traffic Headquarters and the motorbike association Vespacito, that read a manifesto to support this battle to improve this pandemic social that traffic accidents means.
Relatives of the victims attend this ceremony, who light a candle for each victim and write their name in a balloon, as a symbolic way to pay tribute and keep ALIVE their memory, demanding the social fight so this accidents to become less.
This ceremony ends with a guitar play, made specially by a non mortal victim for this act and also a trumpet player with the score "El Silencio", releasing balloons and a flower delivery between relatives and friends .
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Center for the Complete Management of Mobility
Delegation of Citizens Safety and Mobility.
City of Granada
