Craig Sherlock, 24

Killed 1995

What effect has road trauma had on me? On March 17 1995 my brother Craig was killed in a car accident at the age of 24, too young to die. What about all of us, the family the friends and the many people who knew him in some roundabout way. I was too young to lose a little brother; my parents were too young to lose a son, my grandparents too young to lose a grandson, cousins to lose a cousin, nephews too young to lose an uncle. Sister in laws to lose a brother in law, uncles and aunties to lose a nephew. Girlfriends too young to lose the possible love of their life. Friends too young to lose a good friend and acquaintances too young to become good friends. The world too young to lose an all round good bloke.

This is the hidden statistic. The thousand people who came to his funeral and had been touched by him in some way in their life. The thousand people who mourned the loss of one too young as I do. To the thousand people who still think of him and miss him like I do every day and for every day to come. We are all too young to have to live with this and have all aged because of it. But for Craig my brother, son uncle, nephew, grandson and friend, he will always be too young.

This is why I want to be involved in this campaign. I want to try and get this message to people that no matter what age you are, you will always be too young to die in a motor vehicle accident, and to the hundreds of people you leave behind, your death lives with them every day.

George Greaves