The Governor’s Highway Safety Office provides grants to programs which are designed to reduce the number of fatalities, injuries and related economic losses resulting from traffic crashes on Tennessee’s roadways. Local governments, law enforcement agencies, academic institutions, and private non-profits can apply for National Highway Safety Transportation Administration pass-through funding for projects related to various areas of highway safety. Eligible project areas are included in the State of Tennessee’s Highway Safety Performance Plan.

• Alcohol countermeasures
• Youth alcohol and traffic safety
• Occupant protection: seatbelt and child passenger safety
• Police traffic services
• Traffic records
• EMS
• Safe communities, pedestrian safety, pupil transportation
• Roadway safety
• Motorcycle safety

If you serve a county that has a greater than average rate of crash problems based on the 2005-2009 ranking you may qualify for a grant. To find out this information, click the Tennessee Traffic Crash Data: County Rankings and Statistics by Emphasis 2006-2010

If your project plan involves the goal of reducing some category of motor vehicle crash in your jurisdiction, you MUST provide the following:

• Three years of baseline statistics from your jurisdiction that are relevant to the category of crash you intend to reduce; for example, alcohol-related crashes.
  
  
• Comparative crash statistics from other similar jurisdictions that indicate your particular crash problem is above average.
  
  
• In the case of counter-DUI proposals that involve enforcement, baseline statistics on the numbers of proactive (i.e., not crash-related) DUI arrests and their associated (non-reduced) DUI conviction rates.

Grant applications begin: TBA.

Click the 2011 Tennessee’s Highway Safety Performance Plan (PDF) for more information on the goals and mission of the Governor’s Highway Safety Office.

If you have any questions about the Governor's Highway Safety Office grant process please contact:

Kevin Hager
Governor's Highway Safety Office
(615) 741-6235
kevin.hager@tn.gov