Section 402 state and community highway safety grant (23 C.F.R. Subpart b to part 1300; 23 U.S.C. & 402) - grant to conduct highway safety programs under the state's approved triennial highway…

This Formula Grant award in the amount of $952,050.38 was provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) under the State and Community Highway Safety (CFDA 20.600) program. The grant funding supports the New York Department of Motor Vehicles, acting as the Governor's Traffic Safety Committee, to implement a coordinated statewide highway safety program. Key initiatives funded include impaired driving enforcement, occupant protection education campaigns, child passenger safety training, seat belt enforcement mobilizations, motorcycle rider training, bicycle/pedestrian safety programs, and traffic records system improvements. The grant provides funding directly to the state agency as well as sub-awards to local partners such as county health departments, academic institutions, courts, law enforcement agencies, and non-profit organizations to deliver these safety initiatives across New York. The grant period runs from October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2027.

Section 402 state and community highway safety grant (23 C.F.R. Subpart b to part 1300; 23 U.S.C. & 402) - grant to conduct highway safety programs under the state's approved triennial highway safety plan. Section 402 funding facilitates a coordinated national highway safety program to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage. A state may use these grant funds only for behavioral highway safety purposes. These funds are apportioned using statutory apportionment formula. These funds are provided to the state and territorial highway safety offices based on an approved triennial highway safety plan that details problem identification, public participation and engagement, performance measures, countermeasure strategies for programming funds and an approved annual grant application that details planned projects using identified countermeasure strategies for programming funds to help reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes.