Mayors from various London boroughs will join together on Sunday for a remembrance service honouring those who have died in road traffic accidents.

Mayor of Kingston, Councillor Jeremy Thorn, will be among 19 mayors attending the service in St James Church, near Piccadilly, to commemorate the European day of remembrance for road traffic victims.

The service will be especially poignant for Coun Thorn as he remembers Ekta Patel, the 11-year-old Tiffin Girls pupil who died outside the school in Richmond Road at the beginning of October.

Special memorial services and acts of remembrance have been arranged throughout the UK and Europe to pay tribute to those who have been affected by road traffic accidents.

Every year about 45,000 people are killed and a further 1.6 million injured on Europes roads. And in London alone there are more than 45,000 road traffic casualties every year.

But Kingston Council has acted quickly to prevent another tragedy outside Tiffin Girls with work beginning on a new pedestrian crossing this week.

And extra cash from the St James housing association could be used to fund more pedestrian crossings in the borough.

Surbiton neighbourhood councillors are supporting the idea to use some of the £250,000 for the long awaited Maple Road crossing, near St Andrews Road, and to fund another crossing at Upper Brighton Road.

The day of remembrance is supported by RoadPeace, the national charity for road traffic victims, which can be reached on 020 8964 1021.