The 70s and 80s economic boom led to the upsurge in the volume of automobiles in the country and eventually rapid increase in traffic or vehicular movements on the Nigerian roads. This growth cum development regrettably snowballed into an alarming and endemic increase in road traffic crashes with its attendant high rate of fatality. The loss of precious lives of many Nigerians and their valuable properties that followed these road crashes, prompted and motivated the need to create a safe motoring road culture in Nigeria. Thus, the establishment of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) on the 18th February, 1988 with its operative arm known as “corps”; uniform personnel. As a lead agency in road traffic administration and safety management, the corps is primarily saddled with the mandate to create a safe-motoring environment in Nigeria. Records therefore has it that the activities of the corps led to a drastic reduction of road related crashes by 3.8% as early as 1990, and 66% twenty years later. It is against this backdrop that this study-paper attempted to investigate the challenges confronting the corps in its bid to live up to the mandate which is primarily aimed at reducing road traffic crashes in the country’s roads-highways to the barest minimum. This paper equally examined the historical background of road safety (FRSC) campaign in today’s Nigeria as well as the development of road transportation system and its concomitant emergence of public transport system in the country. At the introductory part of the work the study also highlighted the statutory responsibility of FRSC. The causes, nature and impact of road traffic crashes were looked at while some relevant concepts as well as literature were explained and reviewed. The paper employed qualitative historical methodology in the analysis and discussions of the information procured from the secondary sources on one hand, and primary data or oral interviews of relevant stakeholders on the other hand. In view of the observed challenges facing the corps in actualizing its mandates, recommendations were however made on how to combat them and as well as reduce the menace of road traffic crashes and its associated injuries, fatalities or carnage