More than one million people are killed on the roads each year, but these deaths are often “normalized,” said road justice campaigners, with victims and not the perpetrators often blamed for “accidental” deaths which are usually anything but.
explained his 30-year campaign to reduce road danger.
Stop de Kindermoord was one of many 1970s pressure groups pushing for greater protection from motorists. Petrol shortages in the Netherlands following the OPEC oil embargo of 1973 also helped lead to street redesigns in favor of non-motorizedThe experts discuss the various planning, legal and cultural reasons why the U.K.
In 1971, motorists in the Netherlands killed 3,000 people; 450 of whom were children. One of these was Simone Langenhoff, the six-year-old daughter of Eindhoven-based journalist Vic Langenhoff, a senior writer on national daily newspaperIn anguish, he wrote a 1972 front-page article headlined, “Stop de Kindermoord” – “Stop the Murder of Children.”Langenhoff wrote: “[The Netherlands] chooses one kilometer of motorway over 100 kilometers of safe cycle paths ...
In the polemic he urged that children be taken to school by bus rather than walk or cycle. His article hit a nerve, and urban activists were inspired to create theLed by Maartje van Putten, a 23-year-old new mother, the body advocated not for school buses but protection from motorists.
The ETA’s Yannick Read said that he hopes the online documentary will “help address the apathy and ignorance surrounding road danger as well as uniting groups that represent vulnerable road users.”
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