There has been over twenty thousand reported road collisions in
London in 2024, resulting in 110 people being killed. Victims and
bereaved families have often relied on support from the charity
sector, but organisations such as RoadPeace have faces closure,
resulting in a support gap in services being provided to people
navigating post-crash experience.
The London Assembly has called on the Mayor to
make substantial changes to the consolidated budget to commission
and fund services to ensure that bereaved families and seriously
injured survivors of road traffic collisions in London are able
to continue to receive tailored support and advocacy to help them
through the aftermath of a serious crash.
AM, who proposed the motion, said:
“Even a slight collision can have a huge consequence, a
broken ankle can mean someone unable to work and pay their rent –
and in the very worst cases, the devastation felt after a family
member dies on the road is simply beyond
words.”
“People navigating life after the horrendous trauma of a road
crash need specialist services, including the kind of
peer-to-peer support through judicial processes that was
previously offered by the charity Roadpeace.”
“We cannot let victims and survivors, and their families,
down. I'm so pleased that the London Assembly agrees that the
Mayor must replace this vital service.”
The full text of the motion is:
This Assembly notes:
- the 20,989 reported collisions in London in 2024, resulting
in 110 people being killed, 3,597 being seriously injured and
20,312 being slightly injured.
- the sudden closure of the national charity for road crash
victims, RoadPeace on 9 January 2026, ending more than 30 years
of tailored, trauma-informed support to bereaved families and
seriously injured survivors of road traffic collisions.
- this has created a gap in London, as there are very few
charities providing specific peer-to-peer support to people
navigating the post-crash experience, collision investigation and
judicial processes.
- from the recent year of accounts submitted by RoadPeace, its
nationwide expenditure was £459,000 per annum, with the London
costs mostly covered by grants for specific projects from
charitable trusts, the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime
(MOPAC) and Transport for London (TfL).
This Assembly further notes:
- that in 2024, the Assembly passed a unanimous motion
recognising Road Safety Week, calling on the Mayor to engage with
road danger reduction campaigners and charities, support their
demands for the establishment of a Road Safety Investigation
Branch, and urgently prioritise bringing forward Vision Zero
Action Plan 2.
- that in 2022, the Assembly passed a unanimous motion calling
on all Londoners to recognise World Day of Remembrance for Road
Traffic Victims.
This Assembly recognises the importance of the emotional and
practical support for London crash victims that has been provided
by trained volunteers who have lived experience of a fatal or
serious collision over the last thirty years.
This Assembly therefore calls on the Mayor, in his final draft
consolidated budget for 2026-27, to commission and fund services
to ensure that bereaved families and seriously injured survivors
of road traffic collisions in London are able to continue to
receive tailored support and advocacy to help them through the
aftermath of a serious crash.
Notes to editors:
- The Motion was agreed by 12 votes
for and 0 against.
