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Campaign NEUŽGESK Invites To Remember Road Victims

2020 11 10

SE Lithuanian Road Administration together with the Lithuanian Road Police invites everybody to mark the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims to be held on 15 November, aiming to draw the society‘s attention to personal responsibility for the behaviour on the road, to observing Road Traffic Regulations and avoiding meaningless victims.

Various institutions and organizations are invited to mark their websites gratutiously with a special logo created on this particular occasion. Mass media are also invited to mark their programmes on that day with the logo and to dedicate this day to traffic safety issues by encouraging road users to behave with responsibility on the road. The logo can be downloaded at the address: https://lakd.lrv.lt/lt/eismo-sauga/akcija-neuzgesk.

Physical entities may mark their Facebook profile photos with the logo mentioned above. A social network user will find several frames dedicated to the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims upon entering the key word ‘neužgesk’.

According to the World Health Organization data, each year more than one million people die, fifty million get injured and a large number of them become disabled in road accidents in various parts of the planet. More than three thousand people are lost every day.

In 2019, 186 people died on Lithuanian roads. According to the Lithuanian Road Police data, this year in the period of ten months the number of traffic accidents was 2,575, with 2,979 injured and 134 killed on the Lithuanian road network. One of the key reasons was a human factor: failure to observe Road Traffic Regulations, a lack of consciousness and responsibility.

In 2005 the United Nations with strong support from the World Health Organization adopted a Resolution, calling  the governments of member countries to dedicate the third Sunday of November each year to remember road victims. Lithuania, just like any other country in the world, has been commemorating this day since 2005.