Lyft Grant Results: Maine
With its grant, MeBHS integrated Lyft ride credits into the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” national enforcement campaign.
State Highway Safety Showcase
These Showcases allow GHSA members to highlight successful programs and learn about promising approaches by other State Highway Safety Offices.
Lyft Grant Results: Illinois
The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) used $20,000 in Lyft ride credits to provide safe and sober travel options in Sangamon County — the home of Illinois’ capital, Springfield.
Lyft Grant Results: California
With its grant, California OTS offered Lyft credits to promote the use of safe alternatives to impaired driving through its "Go Safely, California" traffic safety awareness effort. This broad effort helps Californians get where they are going — safely.
Drowsy Driving Prevention Grant: Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Highway Safety Division (HSD) used grant funding from GHSA and the National Road Safety Foundation (NRSF) to launch a public awareness campaign. The campaign was designed to engage young drivers on the impacts of drowsy driving and to provide prevention education.
Drowsy Driving Prevention Grant: New York
The New York Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee received a grant from the National Road Safety Foundation & GHSA to provide an informational webinar for law enforcement officers on the effects of drowsy driving in collaboration with Stony Brook University’s School of Health Technology & Management.
Responsibility.org Drugged Driving Grant Result: Vermont
Through a grant from the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility (Responsibility.org) and GHSA, the Vermont State Highway Safety Office – Behavioral Safety Unit (SHSO - BSU) provided Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE) training to law enforcement.
Responsibility.org Drugged Driving Grant Results: South Dakota
The South Dakota Office of Highway Safety (SDOHS) received a grant from GHSA and the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility (Responsibility.org) to hold an Impaired Driving Conference in December 2019.
DUID Training Grant: West Virginia
The West Virginia Governor’s Highway Safety Program (GHSP) used grant funding from GHSA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to hold a multiday training session to educate participants on different aspects of drugged driving cases and the prosecution process.
The West Virginia GHSP partnered with the West Virginia Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor (TSRP) to organize a “West Virginia Prosecuting the Drugged Driver Course” in September 2019. Thirteen Assistant Prosecutors/Assistant Attorneys General and 12 drug recognition expert (DRE) officers attended.
DUID Training Grant: Oklahoma
The Oklahoma Highway Safety Office (OHSO) used grant funding from GHSA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) for two oral fluid testing devices. Oklahoma’s Board of Tests for Alcohol and Drug Influence approved these devices for use but required field testing to develop proper standard procedures.
Responsibility.org Drugged Driving Grant Results: Rhode Island
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation Office of Highway Safety used grant funding from GHSA and Responsibility.org to provide law enforcement training to enhance efforts to combat drug impaired driving through a monthly training calendar for Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement.