This presentation gives an overview of National Highway for Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA's) traffic safety program support in Texas. Crash data and impaired driving fatality numbers for NHTSA's Region 6 including; Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma are compared.
Presented by Frank Marrero, Regional Program Manager, NHTSA
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Texas "Big State, Big Challenges" by NHTSA
1. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
TEXAS “BIG State
BIG Challenges”
Frank Marrero
Regional Program Manager
2. Safer Drivers. Safer Cars. Safer Roads.
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8. Safer Drivers. Safer Cars. Safer Roads.
Region 6 -Traffic Safety Program Expenditures for
Impaired Driving
*Amounts and Percentages shown do not include 164 HE or 154 HE funding.Data Source is NHTSA Grants Tracking System.
402AL
410
164
154
405d
Total
ID
Expend
itures*
Total
Progra
m
Expend
itures*
% of
Funds
Expend
ed for
ID*
FY09 $3,101,780
$13,706,780
$7,387,121
$7,128,433
$0
$31,324,113
$74,160,496
42.24%
FY10 $2,564,292
$20,676,082
$7,387,121
$5,944,802
$0
$36,572,297
$77,388,708
47.26%
FY11 $1,847,794
$18,254,486
$7,309,349
$7,567,669
$0
$34,979,297
$72,828,850
48.03%
FY12 $1,804,106$ $22,780,511
$6,507,711
$6,989,775
$0
$38,082,103
$72,533,975
52.50%
FY13 $5,621,191
$23,068,509
$6,653,452
$5,737,410
$0
$41,080,562
$71,675,456
57.31%
FY14 $776,982
$9,496,313
$9,465,040
$6,299,376
$18,755,296
$44,793,007
$82,985,812
53.98%
9. Safer Drivers. Safer Cars. Safer Roads.
Total Program Expenditures VS ID Expenditures
10. Safer Drivers. Safer Cars. Safer Roads.
402AL 410 405d
Total ID
Expenditures*
Total Program
Expeditures*
% of total Program
Expenditures*
FY09 $2,095,299 $3,747,419 $0 $5,842,718 $34,583,287 16.89%
FY10 $1,688,544 $9,544,158 $0 $11,232,701 $35,611,038 31.54%
FY11 $1,152,970 $10,363,273 $0 $11,516,243 $32,400,651 35.54%
FY12 $1,006,317 $15,513,384 $0 $16,519,701 $36,030,925 45.85%
FY13 $4,689,431 $11,791,191 $0 $16,480,622 $34,335,173 48.00%
FY14 $35,003 $5,499,451 $11,992,143 $17,526,596 $40,506,381 43.27%
State of Texas- Traffic Safety Program Expenditures for
Impaired Driving- *Amounts and Percentages shown do not include 164 HE or 154 HE funding. Data Source is
NHTSA Grants Tracking System.
11. Safer Drivers. Safer Cars. Safer Roads.
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12. Safer Drivers. Safer Cars. Safer Roads.
•Actively enforcing existing 0.08% BAC laws, minimum legal drinking
age laws, and zero tolerance laws for drivers younger than 21 years
old.
•Promptly taking away the driver's licenses of people who drive while
intoxicated.
•Using sobriety checkpoints
•Putting health promotion efforts into practice that influence economic,
organizational, policy, and school/community action.
•Using community-based approaches to alcohol control and DWI
prevention. (MADD & TST)
•Requiring mandatory substance abuse assessment and treatment, if
needed, for DWI offenders.
•Raising the unit price of alcohol by increasing taxes.
How can deaths and injuries from impaired driving
be prevented?