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 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) awarded a $404,457.36 Formula Grant to the Washington Traffic Safety Commission under the State and Community Highway Safety program (CFDA 20.600). This multi-year grant, effective October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2027, supports the implementation of Washington's approved highway safety plan. Funds will be used to conduct a range of behavioral traffic safety initiatives across the state, including public education, high-visibility enforcement campaigns, data collection and analysis, and specialized law enforcement training. Key focus areas include impaired driving countermeasures, occupant protection, traffic records system improvements, pedestrian and bicycle safety, motorcyclist awareness, and other strategies to help reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities resulting from motor vehicle crashes in Washington.

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.