Signs for highways I-275 and US 19 by Bilanol via iStock for WMNF News.
A local St Petersburg organization will be honoring World Remembrance Day for Traffic Victims this Sunday.
Activate St Pete, an organization that focuses on activating change in traffic and road safety, is hosting an event to honor those lost to traffic accidents. It will be outside of St Pete City Hall this Sunday at noon. They will place flags to represent the 186 people who were injured or killed by vehicles in St. Petersburg last year, according to Signal Four Analytics.
“This is a really important event to just make sure that we take a second to pause to remember that we’re talking about people who lost their lives on their way to school, on their way to work, kids just going to go see their friends,” said Franklin Alves, the co-founder of Activate St Pete. “It’s just a moment to just take a pause cause we’re talking about people, families, that have experienced enormous loss, and a lot of it is preventable.”
Activate St Pete encourages members of the community to honor the lives lost and get involved in the change they are hoping to make in St Pete. For more information visit, activatestpete.org.