About Safety Behind the Wheel Foundation
Safer roads. Stronger recovery. Hope after a life changing road event.
Safety Behind the Wheel Foundation is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by a survivor and dedicated to reducing the life changing impact of preventable roadway harm. We support individuals and families affected by serious road injuries, serious vehicle collisions, and roadway trauma.
Through our Safer Roads Now initiative, we promote traffic safety education, survivor and family support, traumatic brain injury and memory loss awareness, responsible innovation, and community action.
Road safety may begin with numbers, reports, violations, and statistics. But it does not end there. Behind every incident is a person, and behind every person are the people who love them, the memories they carry, and the future they still deserve.
Who we are
Safety Behind the Wheel Foundation was created from lived experience with the devastating impact of a serious vehicle collision. What began as one survivor’s journey through physical pain, memory loss, emotional trauma, and recovery became a mission to help others before, during, and after roadway harm.
Our work connects prevention with compassion. We help people make safer choices behind the wheel, support survivors and families as they navigate recovery, and raise awareness of the long term effects of traumatic brain injury, memory loss, and emotional healing after serious roadway injuries.
At the heart of our mission, we hold a simple belief. Every life on the road carries a story. Protecting that life means protecting the family, friends, memories, and future connected to it.
Why we exist
Every serious roadway incident leaves more than visible damage. Survivors may face pain, fear, anxiety, depression, brain fog, memory loss, financial stress, isolation, and changes in identity. Families may struggle to understand what recovery really means. Communities often see traffic statistics, but not the human story behind them.
Safety Behind the Wheel Foundation exists to close that gap.
We work to prevent roadway harm through education, support those already affected, and encourage greater awareness of the injuries and emotional wounds that can remain long after the emergency scene is cleared.
Our mission is rooted in prevention, recovery, dignity, and hope.
What we do
Traffic safety education
We promote awareness around safer driving choices and preventable roadway risks, including distracted driving, speeding, impaired driving, fatigue, seat belt nonuse, and unsafe behavior around pedestrians, cyclists, passengers, and other road users.
Survivor and family support
We help survivors of serious roadway incidents and their families find trusted information, practical resources, encouragement, and pathways to support as they navigate the physical, emotional, psychological and personal challenges of recovery.
TBI and memory loss awareness
We raise awareness of traumatic brain injury, memory loss, cognitive recovery, and the long term effects of serious vehicle collisions and roadway injuries. We support greater education and research awareness around injuries that are often misunderstood, invisible, or difficult to explain.
Responsible innovation
We encourage the ethical, human centered use of technology, data, artificial intelligence, driver assistance education, and transportation safety research to help make roads safer while protecting people, privacy, and public trust.
What guides us
Our work is guided by empathy, shared responsibility, survivor centered support, responsible technology, research awareness, inclusion, transparency, and trust.
We believe:
Road safety is a shared responsibility.
Survivors and families deserve dignity, compassion, and support.
Education can help prevent life changing roadway harm.
Innovation should protect people, privacy, and public trust.
Research into traumatic brain injury, memory loss, and recovery deserves greater awareness.
Donations should be handled responsibly and transparently.
A transparent nonprofit mission
Safety Behind the Wheel Foundation is committed to responsible stewardship, donor privacy, accessibility, nondiscrimination, and clear legal transparency.
Our website provides educational information, awareness content, and community resources. It does not provide emergency, medical, legal, mental health, or professional clinical services. Anyone facing an emergency or urgent health concern should contact qualified professionals or emergency services.
How you can help
Donate
Your support helps fund safety education, survivor resources, awareness campaigns, community outreach, and research related initiatives focused on prevention, recovery, traumatic brain injury, and memory loss.
Volunteer or partner
Join us as an individual, school, employer, community group, public safety partner, healthcare professional, researcher, or organization committed to safer roads and stronger recovery support.
Share the mission
Help spread awareness about safe driving, roadway recovery, traumatic brain injury, memory loss, and the human stories behind traffic safety.
Together, we can help more stories continue
A serious roadway incident can change a life in seconds. But education, compassion, research, innovation, and community action can help prevent harm, support healing, and create more chances for people to keep living the stories still ahead of them.
Safety Behind the Wheel Foundation exists to protect lives, support survivors, and help build a future where more people return home safely, more families remain whole, and more stories are given the time, care, and possibility they deserve.