Federal Grant Programs

The Section 402 program provides grants to states to improve driver behavior and reduce deaths and injuries from motor vehicle-related crashes.

This provision encourages states to enact an open container law.

This program encourages states to maintain statistical information on the race and ethnicity of drivers stopped by police and to provide training and education to reduce the disparate impact of traffic stops.

Section 405 is the National Priority Safety Program, which provides grant funding to address selected national priorities for reducing highway deaths and injuries.

This provision encourages states to enact a repeat offender law.

Project Underway: This project will design and conduct research on the remaining fraction of Americans who do not use seat belts, with the goal of identifying practical, actionable countermeasures that can be implemented by state highway safety offices and their partners to motivate the last seat belt use holdouts to buckle up.