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…

The Ohio Department of Public Safety, State Highway Patrol received a $620,678.20 Section 402 State and Community Highway Safety Formula Grant (CFDA 20.600) from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). This multi-year grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, supports the implementation of the state's approved highway safety plan to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage. The grant funds behavioral safety initiatives and countermeasure strategies focused on occupant protection, impaired driving prevention, traffic records improvements, and other areas. The State Highway Patrol may sub-award portions of the grant to local government partners for targeted projects and programs within the state.

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.