The Dr Tunde Aladesanmi Foundation for Road Safety (DTAF) is a nonprofit organisation committed to reducing preventable road traffic crashes, injuries, and fatalities across Nigeria. Established in memory of Dr Tunde Aladesanmi—a distinguished surgeon, educator, and humanitarian—the foundation was born out of a tragic road crash on April 24, 2016, which claimed his life alongside those of six other doctors and their driver. This devastating loss underscored a painful reality: far too many lives are lost daily on Nigerian roads to incidents that could have been prevented.
DTAF exists to ensure that such losses are not in vain. We work to transform grief into action by promoting safer road use through public education, advocacy, research-informed interventions, and strategic partnerships. Our focus is on influencing behaviour, strengthening systems, and supporting policies that make roads safer for all users—drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, and passengers alike.
We collaborate closely with key stakeholders, including the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), government institutions, civil society organisations, professional bodies, and local communities. Through these partnerships, we support initiatives that enhance road safety awareness, traffic law enforcement, speed management, emergency response capacity, and post-crash care.
At DTAF, we believe that road safety is not about blame—it is about prevention, responsibility, and systems that save lives. Every campaign we run, every partnership we build, and every voice we amplify is guided by one urgent mission: to ensure that fewer families receive the devastating knock on the door.
Together, we can create a culture where safety is valued, lives are protected, and every journey ends safely.
At the Dr Aladesanmi Foundation, we believe that no one should have to experience the pain of losing a loved one to a preventable road traffic crash. That’s why we’re committed to promoting road safety education, awareness campaigns, and community engagement to reduce the number of crashes in Nigeria.
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, Brochuresand Hand Bills, Social Media Campaigns, Workshops and Training, School Programs, Awareness, Community Engagement, Partnerships
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
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