Click on the links below to read Brake’s acclaimed guides for people affected by road death and injury. If you have been bereaved then the police are required within their protocols to give you printed copies of Brake bereavement guides for adults and children. If you have not received these, call the Brake helpline on 0845 6038570 for your free copies.
Coping with grief following a road death
Our guide on bearing the trauma and how to seek help. Read Coping with grief
Procedures following a road death
Our guide to the practical and legal procedures that follow a road death, ranging from seeing a loved one's body to court cases and compensation issues. Download the guide as a pdf for England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. You can also read our additional advice on roadside memorials. The standards of care you should receive from the police and other agencies are laid down in a number of official codes. We have compiled a list of links to these codes here
For translations of our guides for people bereaved by road crashes, click here.
Picture book for children bereaved by a road crash
Our book for children, Someone has died in a road crash, is full of colourful, warm illustrations and text that helps adults to support children and answer their questions, and is best read in its printed form. Call the Brake helpline on 0845 603 8570 for a free copy of this book or ask your police contact. You can also visit our site www.amyandtom.org which provides advice for carers of children bereaved by any sudden cause.
What happens in an Intensive Care Unit
This guide is for families whose loved ones are being cared for in an Intensive Care Unit following a road crash. Download here
Advice for people seriously injured in road crashes
A guide to practical issues surrounding a serious injury and sources of support. Download pdfs for England and Wales, and Northern Ireland
Our support standards and making a comment
Read our support standards, including the standards we work to when preparing guides for road crash victims. You can read comments about our support work and also make a comment yourself.
Funding for our support guides and help us to do more
Brake's support guides are funded by public donation and by a number of agencies, including the Ministry of Justice, The Scottish Government and the Police Service of Northern Ireland. If you want to give back to Brake and help us to fund our support guides and help more people, click the fundraising button at the top of this site. You can also read about two of the many bereaved families who have already generously helped Brake by reading Katie's story and Jamie's story.
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