Road Safe Sierra Leone

Our mission is to reduce road deaths and injuries by supporting and encouraging partnerships between private sector businesses, traffic engineers, the police, public health authorities and road safety professionals to promote the safe design and use of vehicles and roads by sharing knowledge and encouraging innovation. We bring together representatives from government, the vehicle and component manufacturing, insurance and road transport industries, road safety professionals and specialist media, to find new approaches to reducing casualties amongst vulnerable groups. We are unique as we are currently the only forum which gathers all these representatives to work together. Launched in October 2011, it has grown from our concern for road safety in the country which has been recognised as an outstanding achievement and innovation in road safety since Sierra Leone supported the UN Decade of Action 2020 on Road Safety. Our primary objectives are: The creation of a multi-sectoral partnership comprising of stakeholders in Sierra Leone and the Diaspora to develop programmes that will increase road safety awareness among all road users. Design road accident-related public health education and prevention strategy for drivers, pedestrians and other vulnerable road users such as school children, youths, the elderly and people with mobility problems. Develop Pre-Hospital Trauma Care Systems for road accident victims to avoid permanent disability, injuries and possibly death