State gives $31K to Bibb County Sheriff’s Office to cut down car crashes
A grant of more than $30,000 was awarded to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office to reduce car crashes that happen due to aggressive and dangerous driving, the sheriff’s office announced Wednesday.
The Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety awarded the $31,128 grant to the BSCO H.E.A.T. Unit, which stands for the Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic. Bibb County was one of 26 law enforcement agencies to get a grant, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
The money will be used to “develop and implement strategies to reduce local traffic crashes due to aggressive and dangerous driving behaviors,” the sheriff’s office said. The grant will fund work through the end of September 2026.
“Crash data shows enforcement and education of traffic laws are two of most effective countermeasures to help our state and nation reduce crashes and eliminate deaths and serious injuries on our roads,” Allen Poole, director of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, said in a news release. “Each life saved on our roads is one less family that will have to live with the pain of losing a loved one whose life was taken from them in a traffic crash that was completely preventable.”
These road safety grants are awarded to jurisdictions with the highest rates of traffic crashes, and the highest rates of crashes that cause injury or death, the sheriff’s office said.
Sheriff David Davis said the program “is an essential resource in our efforts to make our community’s roads safer.”