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ITD’s Office of Highway Safety Encourages Agencies to Apply for Safety Grants
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is offering grants for safety improvements through February 17, 2017. The NHTSA funding supports safety programs regarding safety restraint use, distracted driving, impaired driving, aggressive driving, youthful drivers, roadway safety and other problem areas.
NHTSA reports that from 2011 through 2015, traffic crashes were the leading cause of unintentional injury deaths for Idahoans aged 1 to 34 years. The statistics indicate that a traffic crash occurred every 22 minutes, a person was killed every 40 hours, and another was injured every 40 minutes in 2015.
The goal of the NHTSA is to promote behaviors that lead to safer driving. State or local governments and nonprofit groups are eligible to apply for these funds. The application can be downloaded from the ITD website at: http://itd.idaho.gov/safety/?target=safety-programs-funding#grant-application or email ohsgrants@itd.idaho.gov . The programs will begin October 1, 2018.
John Tomlinson, ITD’s Highway Safety Manager stated: “We encourage our partners to apply for funding to implement innovative highway safety projects to save lives and move Idaho toward our goal of Toward Zero Deaths.“
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