Our traffic culture is damaging our health.

Over two million people have been killed or injured in UK traffic collisions over the last 10 years and 30,000 more are dying from lung and heart diseases caused by traffic pollution every year.

A Lancet study states that traffic pollution stunts lung development in young children.

One in five primary school kids is clinically obese, often due to fear of cycling to school because there are no cycle lanes.

This fear is well-founded since, according to Child Alert, every 10 minutes sees a child killed or seriously injured on our roads.

The Stop the Killing coalition, in partnership with Stop Killing Cyclists, is organising a major protest on November 15 in London.

It is called The National Funeral of the Unknown Victim of Traffic Violence.

It will assemble at noon in Bedford Square and follow a symbolic hearse down London's Oxford Street, culminating in the UK’s largest ever ‘die-in’ under Marble Arch.

The protest’s list of 10 demands can be seen on the website www.stopthekilling.org.uk.

They include ‘home zones’ to make streets safer for children, longer pedestrian crossing timings, lower residential speed limits, elimination of pollution and a national cycling network fit for ages eight to 80 and for parents with babies.

You can sign up for the event on the Facebook page, National Funeral for the Unknown Victim of Traffic Violence.

To add your local group to those supporting the event, email contact@stopthekilling.org.uk.

This protest is a grassroots clarion call to end traffic’s carnage and environmental destruction and make our roads fit for humans. Please be there.

Ann Williams, Gordon Road, Wanstead.