Stop de Kindermoord

Stop de Kindermoord (Dutch for "Stop the Child Murder") was a 1970s protest movement in the Netherlands against the increasing number of children killed in traffic collisions as a consequence of the growing car dependency of Amsterdam and other Dutch cities.[1][2][3]

References
  1. Langenhoff, Vic (September 20, 1972). ""Pressiegroep Stop de kindermoord"". De Tijd. Amsterdam. Retrieved August 17, 2023.
  2. van der Zee, Renate (May 5, 2015). "How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world". The Guardian. Retrieved August 16, 2023. All that growing traffic took its toll. The number of traffic casualties rose to a peak of 3,300 deaths in 1971. More than 400 children were killed in traffic accidents that year. This staggering loss led to protests by different action groups, the most memorable of which was Stop de Kindermoord ("stop the child murder"). Its first president was the Dutch former MEP, Maartje van Putten.
  3. Reid, Carlton (September 21, 2019). "Redesign Roads So That Motorists 'Stop Killing Our Children', Urges Crowdfunded Film". Forbes. Archived from the original on September 22, 2019. Retrieved August 16, 2023. In 1971, motorists in the Netherlands killed 3,000 people; 450 of whom were children. One of these was Simone Langenhoff, the six-year-old daughter of Eindhoven-based journalist Vic Langenhoff, a senior writer on national daily newspaper De Tijd. In anguish, he wrote a 1972 front-page article headlined, "Stop de Kindermoord" – "Stop the Murder of Children."


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