In 2006, 42,642 lives were crashed in the US due to motor vehicle accidents; a huge number that is really threatening, especially for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). For NHTSA, this is something that requires a budget of $851 million from the Highway Trust Fund for the Fiscal Year 2009 to support its projects.

This amount of money is allotted to four divisions, each one aiming to decrease vehicular accidents and the number of lives sacrificed on the highways; these are Vehicular Safety Research, Highway Safety and Research Development, National Driver Register and lastly, for the Highway Traffic Safety Grants and High Visibility Enforcement which has the most allotted budget of $601 million.

Focusing on the one that requires the highest budget among the four, the Highway Traffic Safety Grants and High Visibility Enforcement is divided into eight highway traffic safety grant programs which can eventually reduce motor vehicle crashes, deaths and injuries with Child Safety and Child Booster Seat Safety Incentive Grants amounting to a $7 million budget and Seat Belt Performance Grants requiring $124.5 million.

This is obviously a huge and totally no joke budget indeed. But certainly, this is the authority’s way of reducing deaths on the road.

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