Mississippi Office of Highway Safety

MISSION The mission of the MOHS is to encourage and assist State and local agencies, institutions and the private sector in establishing or expanding cooperative highway safety programs based on specifically identified traffic safety problems. The overall goal is to reduce traffic crashes which result in death, injury and economic loss in the State. In order to accomplish this goal, activities are carried out in the areas of; alcohol/drug countermeasures, police traffic services including speed, occupant protection, traffic records, driver education and special projects funded through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Information on this website provides an excellent source of information for state and local providers to use in accessing appropriate information to be used in highway safety activities, grant applications and other programmatic resources.