The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2025

The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims is a day of remembrance, reflection and awareness that is commemorated worldwide. This special day, which takes place every year on the third Sunday in November, pays tribute to all those who have lost their lives or suffered serious and irreversible damage to their health and to their surviving families in road crashes.

This year, once again, the three Federations and Partnerships — FEVR, IRVP, and FICVI — have united to amplify the global voice of road victims and their bereaved families. Building on last year’s strong collaboration, we continue to stand together and invite you to join us in showing your support and solidarity by sharing and promoting this year’s campaign materials.

LOST TALENTS

When people are killed or severely injured in road traffic collisions before their time, the world loses more than just individuals — it loses their potential, their ideas, their future impact on society. They become LOST TALENTS. And lost talents become the soul of our platform.

The emptiness left behind after someone is killed or severely injured on the road is powerfully conveyed through scenes of an empty stage, a deserted sports field, or a quiet room — spaces where their presence is deeply missed, and their absence is painfully felt.

The statistic that “of all-cause mortality, road traffic injury remains the leading cause of death for children and young people” is straight-forward and haunting. That’s why we let it speak for itself and directly use it as the main message of our “Lost talents” campaign.

Materials Toolkit, posters, billboards, citylights, social media, …

You can personalise all materials with your logos, ribbons and translations into your language.

To adapt the materials, you can use: Canva (online tool), LibreOffice Draw (computer program), Adobe Acrobat Pro, PDF-XChange Editor, Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, …