On a beautiful sunny Sunday in downtown Los Angeles, a coalition of organizers, advocates, and neighbors convened to mark World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. Volunteers arrived early to create a memorial garden, complete with a colorful chalk mural that read “Save Lives.” The garden comprised 746 plants — one for each person who was killed by a car in Los Angeles County last year.

Around 20 family members gathered on Nov. 16, the day before World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, at MoDa Studios in Venice for SAFE’s first-ever “Sip and Sculpt” — an opportunity for families who’ve been affected by traffic violence to connect over tea, baked goods, and artistic expression.

Art therapy has been shown to be a useful tool for those who’ve suffered traumatic events, like losing loved ones to traffic violence, because it is a nonverbal, creative way to externalize experiences that can be hard to process.

Late on the evening of Oct. 27, 42-year-old Oscar Guardado was killed in a hit-and-run while riding his bike in the West Adams neighborhood of LA, according to the GoFundMe page set up by his daughter, Angeles.

Oscar was the 20th bicyclist killed by a driver in Los Angeles so far this year, though, as Biking in LA points out, there remains little information about the incident.