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Tennessee Sheriff Teams With Decatur Electronics To Reduce Speeding And Traffic Fatalities

DECATUR, IL - Decatur Electronics has teamed with the Montgomery County, TN Sheriff's Department to reduce traffic fatalities due to speeding. The partnership arose after demonstration of a Decatur OnSite 350 speed trailer as part of the Tennessee's state-wide Law Enforcement Challenge.

The durable and high quality speed trailer offers economical traffic and speed control measures. When equipped with the EZ Stat™ monitoring system to track traffic patterns and generate easy-to-analyze reports, the department can use the trailer to effectively deploy personnel for speed enforcement. The trailer is equipped with a radar antenna that measures a vehicle's speed and flashes the information on a large LED display. These automatic alerts create awareness of the posted speed limit and are shown to influence driver speed.

According to Deputy James Derico of the Montgomery County Sheriff, the speed trailer has more than lived up to expectations. "It's a lot harder to find speeders since we began using the trailer," he said. "The volume of traffic remains the same, but speeding has been lessened and fatalities have gone down."

Decatur Electronics, the first manufacturer of radar for law enforcement 50 years ago, developed its OnSite line of radar and message trailers to help departments, said Mark Hutchinson, Regional Sales Manager for the company.

"Any time we can work with law enforcement officials to help them achieve their goals, the general public wins through improved safety," Hutchinson said. "By lending one of our speed trailers to different agencies, we were able to demonstrate an effective and cost effective way to enforce speed limits. The Montgomery Sheriff's test demonstration was so convincing that they purchased one of the units."

Decatur has served the public safety sector for more than 50 years. In addition to radar, the company also manufactures digital and digital tape in-car video systems as well as speed measurement equipment for sports, industrial applications and OEM products for companies including Harley-Davidson, Polaris and Jugs.

The company is headquartered in Decatur, IL. It also operates an engineering technology facility in Ft. Collins, CO, and a high-tech vehicle outfitting division, Thunderworks Mobile Engineering in Santee, CA.

Learn more about Decatur's radar, trailer or video products at www.decaturradar.com.

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