Kentucky Highway Safety Grant

Grant Details:
Open Date for Application: January 2012 est
Application Due Date: February 2012 est

Description:

Mission:

"To reduce Kentucky's highway fatalities and injuries."

Impaired Driving Program Objectives

- Increase public awareness of the DUI problem and the consequences for offenders, especially among those most likely to drink and drive.

- Increase enforcement in counties and cities with high numbers of alcohol-related crashes by providing law enforcement agencies with the resources they need to implement strict DUI enforcement programs.Educate prosecutors and law enforcement on ways to more effectively manage DUI cases.Educate Kentucky’s youth about the dangers and consequences of driving impaired and underage drinking.Coordinate at least one major statewide impaired driving mobilization per year.

- Provide incentives/awards to law enforcement agencies/officers that excel in apprehending impaired drivers.

- Provide training to state and local law enforcement officers to become certified Drug Recognition Experts. This certification will be an effective tool for recognizing and convicting persons driving impaired by drugs.

Occupant Protection Objectives

- Educate the public about the provisions of Kentucky’s primary seat belt law and the consequences of non-compliance.

- Encourage law enforcement agencies to aggressively enforce the primary seat belt law.

- Encourage law enforcement agencies to aggressively enforce the primary seat belt law during night time hours. (8 pm – 6 am)

- Coordinate at least one major statewide law enforcement mobilization focused on occupant protection during the year.

- Continue to increase public awareness about the lifesaving benefits of seat belts, child safety seats and booster seats. Target messages to those segments of the population and to geographic areas with the lowest usage rates.

- Encourage the passage of stronger occupant protection laws for children (specifically, those over 40” tall, who are not adequately protected under the current child restraint law) by providing information and statistics about this topic to lawmakers, safety advocates and grassroots organizations.

- Educate more parents, childcare workers, emergency personnel and others about how to correctly install child safety seats. Support making more fitting stations and CPS technicians available to the public.

Speed-Related Program Objectives

- Provide law enforcement agencies with the resources necessary to implement speed enforcement programs.Raise public awareness about the dangers and penalties for speeding through educational outreach activities and media opportunities.

Motorcycle Program Objectives:

- Use public service announcements to increase motorists’ awareness of the need to look out for motorcyclists and to “share the road” with them.

- Increase motorcyclists’ knowledge of safe riding behaviors through the distribution of educational materials and targeted media messages.

- Increase enforcement of impaired driving laws relating to motorcyclists.

Young Driver Program Objectives:

- Increase enforcement of primary safety belt law for young drivers.

- Increase enforcement of GDL laws for young drivers.

- Increase enforcement of underage drinking laws for young drivers.

- Increase enforcement of speeding laws for young drivers.

- Use public service announcements and media to increase young drivers awareness of traffic safety laws.

- Provide well-defined high school educational programs in support of law enforcement campaigns to schools in identified targeted counties.

- Increase involvement of schools in SADD chapters and programs.