A road safety charity is to launch a new charter for the 'neglected victims' of road crashes, amidst a rise in the number of people killed or seriously injured on Scotland's roads.
Glasgow saw the highest spike in the number of road deaths or serious injuries across eighteen Scottish council areas in 2023.
Written in collaboration with bereaved families, trauma consultants, and medical and legal professionals, the charter will also call for the rights of crime victims - as set out in the Victims' Code - to be extended to those impacted by road harm. "Every road victim deserves the very highest standard of support and for that to happen we need a co-ordinated approach and national standards that meet best practice for post-crash response.
Brake said its National Road Victim Service provided emotional and practical support to more than 1,500 families in the UK in 2023 - including more than 110 in Scotland. It said many of those families had been involved in multi-fatality crashes, and 7% of cases involved the death of a child.
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