Be the Change

Independent road safety campaigner

Meera Naran challenged fleet professionals to play their part in making roads safer, after she detailed her huge achievements as ‘just a mum from Leicester’.

In 2018 Meera’s eight year old son, Dev, was killed in a motorway collision when the vehicle he was in stopped ‘for unknown reasons’ and was struck from behind by an HGV.

Tragically Dev had just left a hospital where he had said goodbye to his seriously ill elder brother.

Meera told delegates at the conference for Commercial Vehicle Safety on the Strategic Road Network that the devastation of Dev’s death left her unable to function for almost a year.

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