General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony: Highway Safety: Better Guidance Could Improve Oversight of State Highway Safety Programs.

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Highway Safety: Better Guidance Could Improve Oversight of State Highway Safety Programs.

GAO-03-474 April 21, 2003

In 1998, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21St Century funded a series of highway safety programs. These safety programs, administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), increased funding to the states to improve highway safety through activities designed to encourage, among other things, the use of seat belts and child passenger seats and to prevent drinking and driving. The ...