Campaigns

• Exclusion of road crash victims from Victim Services Code
  Exclusion of road crash victims from Victim Services Code Road victims continue to be neglected and discriminated against. Unlike other crime victims, road crash victims are still excluded from the basic provision of service obligations by agencies such as the police, Crown Prosecution Service or courts. RoadPeace protested to the Home Office when the first draft of the code excluded all bereaved and injured road crash victims and held a meeting...more
• Government gives fewer rights to road traffic victims.
  Government continues to give bereaved and injured road traffic victims fewer rights than to victims of even the most trivial property crimes. Road victims are excluded from the Victims' Charter Both the 1990 and the 1996 Victim Charters excluded road traffic victims. When a new review of the Victim Charter was undertaken in June 2001, the question was asked : "Should a new Charter include road traffic incidents which lead to death or serious inj...more
• Hit and Run after causing personal injury or death
  Hit and Run after causing personal injury or death. RoadPeace is highlighting the offence of Hit and Run in 2003, but particularly during August, which for the sixth year is being observed as National Road Victim Month. Hit and Run is a particularly reprehensible offence because the victim will suffer more or die as a result of further road danger and a delay in obtaining medical help. Additionally, there is great difficulty in claiming compen...more
• RoadPeace Campaign for Justice for Road Traffic Victims
  RoadPeace Campaign for Justice for Road Traffic Victims A 5 year 'education and awareness' raising campaign to eliminate the major injustices suffered by bereaved and injured road traffic victims. Injustice Ignored is Injustice Condoned RoadPeace launched the Justice Campaign with a Press Conference at the House of Commons on 7 July 1998 - to bring to widest attention the scale of the disaster and the failure of professional agencies and governm...more
• Justice Campaign addresses exclusion of road victims.
  Justice Campaign addresses exclusion of road victims The 12-year long campaign by RoadPeace for rights of road crash victims has to continue. Most bereaved and all injured road crash victims are still to be excluded from the planned mandatory provision of minimum levels of service by official agencies; RoadPeace has appealed to all 150 members of the Parliamentary Group on Justice for Road Traffic Victims to ensure that the Home Office does not ...more
• 10-Minute Rule Bill
  10-Minute Rule Bill 'to create offences of Motor vehicle manslaughter and Aggravated motor vehicle manslaughter' - brought by Jim Knight MP on 13 July 2004 at the House of Commons. Jim Knight MP, MP for South Dorset and a member of the RoadPeace Parliamentary Group for Justice for Road Traffic Victims, was aware from our work and mailings, as well as representations by his constituents, about the wide dissatisfaction with the law following a roa...more
• Parliamentary Lobby Meeting
  Parliamentary Group for Justice for Road Traffic Victims Chair Andrew Miller MP, Vice Chairs: Bob Russell MP, James Gray MP Parliamentary Lobby Meeting on Wednesday, 21 April 2004 Committee Room 14, House of Commons, SW1 12.30 - 1.30 pm Dedication Introduction - Andrew Miller MP and Brigitte Chaudhry Brief Address by Baroness Scotland, Home Officer Minister Launch of Phase 2 of the Campaign for Justice for Road Traffic Victims, followed by Re...more
• Draft RoadPeace response
  Transport Committee Inquiry: Traffic Law and its Enforcement 27 September 2003 RoadPeace is UK's national charity for road traffic victims. From the time of its inception in early 1992, RoadPeace has monitored the situation of road traffic victims and their concerns and has become aware of the failure of the law in relation to road death and injury. In July 1998, RoadPeace launched its Campaign for Justice for Road Traffic Victims (including an ...more
• Victims' Right to Information and Consultation
  Victims' Right to Information and Consultation The present position of road victims and progress in this area since the Launch of RoadPeace's Justice Campaign in July 1998. Presentation by Zoe Stow at Parliamentary Lobby meeting on 21 April In 2001 the Victims Charter was to be updated and for the first time road victims were considered for inclusion. Responses to the consultation were overwhelmingly in favour and it seemed a virtual certainty. ...more
• World Day of Remembrance for Road Crash Victims
  World Day of Remembrance for Road Crash Victims 3rd Sunday of November 21st November 2004 The third Sunday of November is the day on which people throughout the world remember the many millions killed and injured in road crashes. For a list of services and acts of remembrance in the UK on 21st November 2004. In London the Day will be followed by a concert at Wigmore Hall on 26th November, and the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Ian Roberts at ...more