Permanent memorial to road traffic victims opens in Warwickshire

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The memorial will stand in Hartshill Hayes Country Park in Warwickshire

A public memorial to all those killed or seriously injured on a county's roads is set to be unveiled later.

It has been commissioned by Warwickshire Road Safety Partnership (WRSP).

The Hartshill Hayes Country Park site, in north Warwickshire, will offer a "peaceful location" to remember family or friends affected by a road crash, said the partnership.

It will help raise awareness of the people who needlessly die, it added.

Police and crime commissioner and WRSP chair Philip Seccombe said: "It is so important that we never forget those lives lost or injured in a collision and can honour their memories.

"Every person harmed in this way is one too many and this is something as a partnership we are working hard to try and change, encouraging safer road use for all."

Warwickshire Road Safety Partnership has also created an online space, external where you can leave a tribute to someone lost in a road traffic collision.  

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