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Glouco getting $30k for pedestrian safety

Gloucester County is getting a $30,000 grant to improve pedestrian safety at crosswalks.

The program is expected to start running in August, the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office said.

With funding from the grant, plainclothes officers will act as decoys at crosswalks and watch for motorists who don't begin braking in time for a pedestrian to cross, prosecutors said. Violators will be pulled over.

Officials plan to focus on mid-block crosswalks, rather than intersections with traffic signals.

"The goal is education, not only of motorists, but pedestrians as well," Detective Nick Schock, a motor-vehicle fatality investigator for the prosecutor's office, said in a statement.

Last year, eight of the county's 26 deaths from vehicle crashes were pedestrians.

The grant was awarded by the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety.