The Ohio Department of Public Safety’s Ohio Traffic Safety Office awarded $53,488.42 in federal traffic safety funding to Sandusky County for fiscal year 2026, Sandusky County Sheriff Christopher J. Hilton said.
“Partnerships are critical to the success of any safety effort and we are committed to working with safety partners to address traffic safety concerns in Sandusky County,” Hilton said.
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Sandusky County has found that seat belt use, speed awareness and impaired driving enforcement is affecting the safety of county residents. To save lives and improve the quality of life, the sheriff’s office will use the money for overtime shifts to promote driver safety and draw awareness to traffic.
The deputies assigned to the overtime duties will work different shifts during FY 2026. The funds are passed through OTSO from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to support the efforts of safety partners statewide and focus on traffic safety priority areas such as restraint use, impaired driving, speed awareness, motorcycle safety, youthful drivers and distracted driving.
Competitive grant proposals are accepted and reviewed by OTSO. The FFY 2026 competitive grant process solicited grant proposals from state agencies, nonprofit groups, colleges, universities, hospitals, political subdivisions and other interested groups within selected Ohio counties and jurisdictions (based upon the number of fatal crashes).
For more information about OTSO and statewide efforts to improve safety on Ohio’s roadways, log http://ohiohighwaysafetyoffice.ohio.gov/index.stm.
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This article originally appeared on Fremont News-Messenger: Sheriff’s office to spend federal grant on overtime shifts