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Coconino wins federal SS4A planning grant, launches countywide road‑safety program
Summary
Coconino County won a federal SS4A planning grant and will assemble a data‑driven safety action plan to reduce fatal and serious crashes on county roads, with consultants, a stakeholder fatal‑crash task force and targeted projects on 14 top‑priority routes.
Coconino County Public Works briefed the Board of Supervisors on a federally funded initiative to reduce fatal and serious traffic crashes on county roads. The county received a Federal Highway Administration Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) planning award of about $900,000, with a state match, to develop a Comprehensive Safety Action Plan and Local Road Safety Plans focused on 14 priority county routes.
"We received this well over $900,000 grant from Federal Highway Administration for SS4A," Public Works project lead Nate told the board, describing a two‑year planning project that includes public engagement, data analysis, and grant development for construction funding.
What the county will do: Consultants and county staff said they will analyze the most recent 10 years of crash data (ADOT ACES), assemble a multidisciplinary stakeholder group (including schools, emergency medical providers, law enforcement and health systems), form a fatal‑crash task force, run community outreach and surveys, and produce a set of safety countermeasures prioritized for funding applications (HSIP, SS4A implementation, state active‑transportation grants).
The data: Consultants said lane departures account for the largest share of fatal and serious crashes on county roads; single‑vehicle run‑offs, rollover events and speed‑related factors were also prevalent. One statistic shared in the presentation: roughly 1,600 county‑road crashes were recorded in the ten‑year dataset, including 20 fatal and 85 serious‑injury crashes.
Emphasis and measures: The plan will use the Safe System approach (safer roads, safer speeds, safer users, safer vehicles, and improved post‑crash response) and pursue systemic countermeasures (rumble strips, shoulder widening, improved signing and delineation, paved shoulders where feasible and targeted intersection improvements). The consultants also emphasized "non‑engineering" approaches: targeted enforcement, education campaigns (seat belt usage), and improvements to emergency medical access and post‑crash care.
Next steps and timeline: Public Works will hold stakeholder workshops (a kickoff was scheduled), open an online public survey and run community meetings in outlying communities (Doney Park, Mormon Lake, Parks/Ashfork). Consultants will perform field reviews on the 14 priority routes in 2026 and prepare grant applications for construction funding once the safety plan and local road safety plans are complete (planning work expected through 2027).
Ending: County staff said the plan will position Coconino County to apply competitively for SS4A implementation awards and Highway Safety Improvement Program funds with a data‑backed project list ready for construction grants.
