Donna Price founded the Irish Road Victims’ Association (IRVA) in 2012 following the Coroner’s inquest into the sudden death of her 18 year old son, Darren, in a road crash in 2006, and is the chairperson of the organization – the national charity for road crash victims in Ireland.
IRVA provides free information and support including bereavement counselling and legal advice to victims and their families and assists families at every stage of Garda investigations, Coroner’s inquests, and civil and criminal legal proceedings.
IRVA hosts an event to mark the UN World Day of Remembrance for Road Victims every year which is attended by hundreds of bereaved families from all around the country.
Donna is also Founder and Co-chair of the International Road Victims’ Partnership (IRVP), a partnership of some 160 NGOs from all regions of the world – a member of the UNRSC, ETSC, and PACTS.
Appointed by the Minister of Transport in 2018, Donna was a board member of the Road Safety Authority, where she served for six years. She has now been appointed to the Road User Safety Forum by the Department of Transport. She also served as a member of the Major Trauma Audit Committee in the National Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA).
Donna was the winner of the Road Safety Authority’s ‘Ambassador of the year for road safety leading light award’ in 2015, and the ASIRT Global Road Safety Advocacy Award in 2021. IRVA, the NGO led by Donna, won the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety Fedex Award in 2021 and in 2024 it won the Road Safety Authority’s ‘Road Safety Champion’ leading light award, together with the Road Safety Authority’s ‘Gertie Shields’ Supreme Award for Road Safety.
