TAF

DTAFRS (Dr Tunde Aladesanmi Foundation For Road Safety)

DTAFRS

DONATE

Mission Statement

At the Dr. Aladesanmi Foundation, our mission is to save lives and prevent the heartbreak of losing loved ones to preventable road traffic crashes. Through comprehensive road safety education, impactful awareness campaigns, and active community engagement, we are dedicated to reducing road traffic incidents across Nigeria. Together, we strive to build safer roads and a more informed society, ensuring every journey is a safe one.

Causes of Road Accidents

As part of our commitment to road safety promotion, we will develop programs that will be focused on education, raising awareness using the following tools: Education, Radio and Television Programs, Billboards, posters, and banners, Brochures and Hand Bills, Social Media Campaigns, Workshops and Training, School Programs, Awareness, Community Engagement, Partnerships

Vission Statement

Causes of Road Accidents in NIgeria

About Us

The Dr. Aladesanmi Foundation was established to honour the remarkable legacy of Dr. Tunde Aladesanmi, a renowned surgeon, medical teacher, mentor, and humanitarian, whose untimely death on April 24, 2016, deeply impacted the Nigerian medical community. Dr. Aladesanmi, along with six other doctors and their driver—collectively remembered as the “Ekiti Seven”—tragically lost their lives in a devastating motor accident on the Abuja-Kaduna Road while en route to an official meeting of the Nigerian Medical Association in Sokoto.

Donation of Breath Analyzers to FRSC Eleyele

On January 22, 2025, the Dedicated to Safer Roads Foundation (DTAF) took a significant step toward promoting safer roads in Nigeria. The foundation held a meeting with representatives of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Eleyele branch in Ibadan, during which they donated two handheld breath analyzers.

Mission Statement

At the Dr. Aladesanmi Foundation, our mission is to save lives and prevent the heartbreak of losing loved ones to preventable road traffic crashes. Through comprehensive road safety education, impactful awareness campaigns, and active community engagement, we are dedicated to reducing road traffic incidents across Nigeria. Together, we strive to build safer roads and a more informed society, ensuring every journey is a safe one.

Causes of Road Accidents

As part of our commitment to road safety promotion, we will develop programs that will be focused on education, raising awareness using the following tools: Education, Radio and Television Programs, Billboards, posters, and banners, Brochures and Hand Bills, Social Media Campaigns, Workshops and Training, School Programs, Awareness, Community Engagement, Partnerships

Vission Statement

Causes of Road Accidents in NIgeria

About Us

The Dr. Aladesanmi Foundation was established to honour the remarkable legacy of Dr. Tunde Aladesanmi, a renowned surgeon, medical teacher, mentor, and humanitarian, whose untimely death on April 24, 2016, deeply impacted the Nigerian medical community. Dr. Aladesanmi, along with six other doctors and their driver—collectively remembered as the “Ekiti Seven”—tragically lost their lives in a devastating motor accident on the Abuja-Kaduna Road while en route to an official meeting of the Nigerian Medical Association in Sokoto.

Donation of Breath Analyzers to FRSC Eleyele

On January 22, 2025, the Dedicated to Safer Roads Foundation (DTAF) took a significant step toward promoting safer roads in Nigeria. The foundation held a meeting with representatives of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Eleyele branch in Ibadan, during which they donated two handheld breath analyzers.

Causes of Road Accidents in Nigeria

The Road Accident Crisis

According to World Health Organisation (WHO) The Global status report on road safety 2023 shows that the number of annual road traffic deaths has fallen slightly to 1.19 million. The report shows that efforts to improve road safety are having an impact, and that significant reductions in road traffic deaths can be made if proven measures are applied. Despite this, the price paid for mobility remains too high. Road traffic injuries remain the leading killer of children and young people aged 5-29 years. More than half of fatalities occur among pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, in particular those living in low and middle-income countries. Urgent action is needed if the global goal of at least halving road traffic deaths and injuries by the year 2030 is to be achieved. 
Download Report Or View Report

Causes of Road Accidents in Nigeria

The impact of Road Accident

Causes of Road Accidents in Nigeria

People die everyday in Nigeria due to road accidents
0 +
Billion Niara lost to road accidents annually in Nigeria
0 +
Children were killed in road accidents daily
0 +
of road accident deaths can be prevented if rapid assistance were rendered
0 %
People have obtain serious injury of permanently disabled in the past decade
0 M+
People have been killed in road accidents over the past decade
0 M+

View Report

The Problem

Causes of Road Accidents in Nigeria

Causes of Road Accidents in Nigeria

To ensure road safety, several strategies must be used.
Four main challenges are the focus of our strategies.

Causes of Road Accidents in nigeria

Poor driving habits

  • Driver education is not required.
  • Weak licensing structure
  • inadequate handling of exhaustion

Inadequate traffic law enforcement

  • Ineffective Penalty Structure
  • Limited risk factors handled by law
  • Minimal use of technology
  • Enforcement reliant on humans
Causes of Road Accidents in Nigeria

Improper engineering and design of the roads

  • Conflict between road users
  • Inadequate construction and maintenance of roads
  • Absence of car safety regulations
  • Improper road design that ignores the Safe System Approach
Causes of Road Accidents in Nigeia

Insufficiently quick trauma treatment

  • There are no set standards for care
  • Absence of a universal access number
  • There is no national ambulance code currently.
  • Improper road design that ignores the Safe System Approach

Causes of Road Accidents in Nigeria

Causes of Road Accidents in Nigeria

Road traffic in Nigeria currently operates within the legal framework established in the Federal Road Safety Commission (Establishment) Act, 2007, the act was enacted to repeal the Federal Road Safety Commission Act, CAP 141 LFN, 1990 (as amended) to establish the Federal Road Safety Commission with the responsibility for traffic management, preventing and minimizing accidents on the highways, the supervision of users of such highways, the regulation of traffic thereon and clearing of obstruction on any part of the highways and for educating drivers, motorists and other members of the public generally on the proper use of highways; and for related matters to safety on the highways. For more information you can click on the links below 

Causes of Road Accidents in Nigeria

Causes of Road Accidents in Nigeria

FRSC Offenses and Penalty
National Road Traffic Regulations, 2012
FRSC ACT 2007

Our Activities

As part of our commitment to road safety promotion, we will develop programs that will be focused on education, raising awareness.

Fund Raising

Road safety is a critical issue that affects millions of people every year. Every day, accidents on our roads lead to injury, disability, and even death. It's a problem that affects everyone, from pedestrians and cyclists to drivers and passengers. That's why it's crucial to support road safety fundraising.

Volunteering

Volunteering for road safety is an important way to give back to your community and help prevent accidents and injuries on the road. As a road safety volunteer, you can help educate people about safe driving practices, such as following speed limits, wearing seatbelts, and avoiding distracted driving.

Our Events

Road safety events are an important platform to raise awareness about the importance of safe driving practices and to promote road safety. These events aim to educate drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists about the risks associated with reckless driving, distracted driving, and driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Join us by
Making a Donation
Join us by
Scroll to Top