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 West Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles received a $150,000 Formula Grant award from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 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 the state's approved Triennial Highway Safety Plan. The funding enables the West Virginia DMV to conduct a range of behavioral safety initiatives, including public awareness campaigns, enforcement efforts, and system improvements aimed at reducing traffic crashes, injuries, and fatalities. Key program areas covered by the grant include occupant protection, impaired driving countermeasures, distracted driving prevention, motorcyclist safety, traffic records enhancements, and commercial driver safety. The West Virginia DMV may sub-award portions of the grant to local partners to deliver targeted interventions within their communities.

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.