Empty chairs for 114 traffic fatalities: 'I'm shocked at how young they are'

In the centre of Uden, 114 empty chairs will be set up on Saturday during the seventh edition of 'The Empty Chair'. They represent the number of fatal traffic victims in Brabant last year. In the Netherlands as a whole, 675 people died in a traffic accident in 2024. The most victims were in our province, 114. "It makes a huge impression when you see all those empty chairs for people from Brabant who never made it home. It makes you speechless," …