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.
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. Please be there.
Ann Williams, Gordon Road, Wanstead.
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