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 highway safety…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration awarded the Ohio Department of Public Safety, State Highway Patrol $620,679.99 on October 1, 2025, under the State and Community Highway Safety formula grant program (CFDA 20.600, Section 402) to conduct behavioral highway safety programs aligned with the State's approved Highway Safety Plan.

The recipient will implement countermeasure strategies and projects to reduce traffic crashes, deaths, injuries, and property damage through activities detailed in Ohio's triennial Highway Safety Plan and annual grant application. The award obligates $620,679.99 for the period of performance from October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2029, with place of performance in Columbus, Ohio. Section 402 funds are apportioned to states using a statutory formula and must be used exclusively for behavioral highway safety purposes, including problem identification and data-driven countermeasure programming consistent with the state's performance measures and approved project strategies.

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 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.