FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Gallia County Sheriff’s Office

Receives $23,111.03 In Traffic Safety Grants

Date: October 10, 2009  Time: 5:00 P.M.

Gallia County Sheriff’s Office

18 Locust Street         

Gallipolis, Ohio 45631

 Federal Funds from Ohio Traffic Safety Office help save lives in Gallia County  

Gallipolis – Gallia County Sheriff announced today the Ohio Department of Public

Safety’s (ODPS) Ohio Traffic Safety Office (OTSO) awarded over $23,000.00 in federal

traffic safety funding to the Gallia County Sheriff for federal Fiscal year 2010.

   “These funds are critical to ensure that we are doing everything possible to keep our community

safe” said Sheriff Browning. “This will enable us to put more deputies on patrol in our township

and village areas and monitor traffic activities in reduced speed zones such as school areas and

rural roads”.  The funds are passed through the OTSO from the National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration to support the efforts of safety partners statewide and focus on safety priority areas

such as restraint use, impaired driving, motorcycle safety and youthful drivers.

  In the past three years fatalities on Ohio’s roads have decreased to near record lows. There were

1,191 fatalities on Ohio’s roads in 2008, down from 1,257 in 2007 and 1, 239 in 2006. So far to

date there have been two “on the roadway” traffic fatalities in Gallia County and one “off roadway”

traffic fatality.  Sheriff Browning hopes that the flexibility built into the grant will also improve call

response to our more outlaying townships.