Redditch Park Display shares with faces behind Road Death Statistics

A woman who lost her brother in a street collision 10 years ago hopes that an exhibition in her hometown will make people talk about the devastating effects of the road deaths.

Lucy Harrison is now working for Road Peace, a charity organization that works for the victims of accidents and their families, and said that she wanted to “remind everyone that victims are more than just statistics”.

Peace in the park was installed in the Arrow Valley Country Park in Redditch on Monday and has pigeons with pictures of people who were killed in the collisions of road traffic.

They were created by young people who were involved in the drive crime, 40 families who were used by street accidents and CFG of the street peace group.

Ms. Harrison said: “Redditch is my hometown, so it is particularly moving for me – but also for our group members, whose relatives were killed on streets in Worcestershire.”

The exhibition, which was first exhibited in Birmingham last year, is also said to visit Malvern and Hereford and supported the police and criminal officers of West Mercia, John Campion.

On Saturday, members of the Road Peace team will be in the boathouse between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. in the Boathouse Café together with the families of the families.

Ms. Harrison said she hoped that people who look at the photos “would see the faces behind the statistics” and would understand the permanent effects of these deaths and serious injuries on families.

In 2014, Ms. Harrison's brother was killed by a driver at an intersection who accelerated.

She said “It changed my life completely”, and the support she received from Road Peace finally led her to leave her job to work for her instead.

But she added: “I have now worked with so many families and 10 years after my brother was killed, it is the same stories, they are the same tragedies, the same frustrations.”

She said she was concerned that the number of deaths was planned by streets and that people “accept it as something that is inevitable when it is not”.

Peace in the park remains in Redditch until May 27, and Ms. Harrison said that, apart from the awareness of the sensitization, she had done better support for victims and more to prevent accidents.