Bringing voice to victims and demanding safer streets at World Day of Remembrance

Standing in solidarity at this year’s World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

I’m not sure how Hannah Ege did it.

Less than a year after her husband Sheria Musyoka was hit and killed by a speeding driver, Hannah spoke at World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims on November 21.

One of the reasons Hannah spoke is because it’s what Sheria would have wanted.

Sheria had told her once that if he were to die, “I just want my death to be impactful and I want it to be a movement. I want my name to be CHANGE.”

So Hannah spoke. To tell the story of her soulmate’s life – and to demand much more is done to prevent crashes like the one that robbed her son Theo of his father.

Many others stood with Hannah to remember those taken too soon and those who were severely injured. I’m grateful to Joe Martinez for speaking about the loss of his son Paul, to Elizabeth Colomello for talking about the crash that could easily have killed her, and to Julie Mitchell for sharing a reading that helped her in the throes of grief after losing her son Dylan.