The Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration’s Highway Safety Office is now accepting applications for grant funding aimed at improving traffic safety and reducing crashes, injuries, and fatalities on Maryland roadways.
These grants are available to support programs and projects that address key factors affecting road safety, including speeding, driving under the influence, distracted driving, seatbelt use, and adherence to traffic laws. The goal is to foster safer behaviors among drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists alike.
Key details:
- Application Period: January 9 – February 28
- Funding Period: Federal Fiscal Year 2026 (October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2026)
Two types of grants are available:
- Law Enforcement Overtime Grants
- General Highway Safety Grants
State and local governments, nonprofits, and institutions of higher education are eligible to apply. In line with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s goals, special emphasis will be placed on projects serving underserved or underfunded areas.
Examples of activities conducted in the past include:
- bringing interactive simulators or presentations to high schools;
- helping health departments with traffic injury prevention (including distribution of child safety seats);
- developing local strategic highway safety plans;
- creating local campaigns focused on one or more elements of safe driving;
- producing educational materials to distribute within communities;
- coordinating community safety events such as bike rodeos or safety days.
Eligible projects must support and implement strategies outlined in the Maryland Strategic Highway Safety Plan and address the four E’s of highway safety – education, enforcement, engineering, and emergency medical services.
In addition to the grant activities mentioned above, grants can also be awarded for projects that help improve the quality of traffic safety data. Eligible projects to improve the timeliness, accuracy, completeness, uniformity, integration, and accessibility of state crash, driver, vehicle, roadway, citation and adjudication, and injury surveillance databases must support and implement strategies in the Maryland Traffic Records Strategic Plan.
We encourage all interested organizations to apply and contribute to making Maryland’s roads safer for everyone.
For more information and to submit your application, please visit: https://zerodeathsmd.gov/grants/how-to-apply/.
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