The National Society for Road Safety
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NTF is an umbrella organisation and consists of 24 county road safety federations, 70 national, interest and professional organisations and hundreds of local voluntary associations. The national network is made up of thousands of people working to help you contribute to a safe road traffic.
Objectives
NTF rouses public opinion of everyone’s right to safe road traffic in which fatalities and serious injuries are considered unacceptable.
NTF increases both people's will to call for and their ability to contribute to safe road traffic.
NTF promotes awareness of the importance of road safety to public health.
NTF was founded in 1934 and the aim was “to strive for improved traffic culture and improved road safety in Sweden, mainly on streets and roads.” The initiative-taker was the then minister of communications, Henning Leo. The government considered it necessary to take energetic measures against the disturbing accident trend. We had 195,000 vehicles in Swedish road traffic. 440 people were killed that year on the roads, accordingly 225 people per 100,000 vehicles – a completely improbable catastrophe. As an interesting comparison, it can be mentioned that 70 years later, Sweden had 4.5 million vehicles that killed 500 people, thus 11 dead per 100,000 vehicles.
Go to NTF's home page (in Swedish)