RoadPeace, Britain's charity for all road traffic victims was founded in 1992 to represent and support this huge neglected victim group.  It was set up in response to the desperate need of bereaved and injured road victims for timely information, immediate to long term support, as well as practical help with complex legal procedures.

RoadPeace offers this through a national helpline, which is open seven days a week and a network of trained volunteers, most of whom are themselves victims. Written information is produced from the victims' perspective.

RoadPeace runs a continuous research and monitoring system, investigating the position of road victims.  The information we gather is used to educate and inform the public and all related agencies, ranging from government departments through to individual coroners.

To prevent future tragedies, RoadPeace campaigns to make the roads safer for everyone, including drivers, with slower speeds, better enforcement and changes in the law to create a real deterrent to irresponsible drivers, and to raise public awareness of the scale of the human suffering and the cost to the taxpayer of ten deaths and 1,400 injuries (hospital data) every day on Britain's roads.

As well as raising Parliament's awareness through their Parliamentary Group, RoadPeace is represented and works at European level at the relevant UN working parties, through their membership of the European Federation of Road Traffic Victims, which has UN consultative status. The Federation made, amongst others, a major contribution to the European Parliament's Programme on Road Safety Priorities for 2002 - 2010.