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NBC Features Nestor's Red Light Cameras in Traffic Safety Story

28 September 1999

NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw Features Nestor's Red Light Cameras in Traffic Safety Story; Nestor's CrossingGuard Can Help to Prevent Intersection Collisions

    PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Sept. 28, 1999--Nestor Traffic Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Nestor, Inc. (OTC: NEST), was featured on NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw on Monday, September 27, in a story focused on traffic safety. In 1998, drivers who ran red lights were involved in 89,000 crashes, causing more than 1,000 violent deaths and 80,000 injuries. Recognizing the severity of the red light running problem and its impact on driver safety, Nestor has developed a solution that provides a direct safety benefit by helping to prevent intersection collisions.
    According to a new Louis Harris poll (released September 27), a vast majority of Americans (85%) say their communities should pay greater attention to improving intersection safety to better protect motorists and pedestrians alike. A 3 to 1 (74% to 23%) majority favors state and local authorities using intersection cameras to catch red light runners. Approval for red light running cameras grew from 65% in Harris' 1998 poll.
    CrossingGuard(R) is the first automated red light enforcement solution to offer a built-in safety feature to improve intersection safety. By detecting vehicles as they approach the intersection, CrossingGuard is able to predict whether or not a vehicle will stop for the red light. If the prediction is made that a violation will occur, CrossingGuard not only begins to record the vehicle approach to the intersection and the full violation, but also sends a request to the traffic controller for a brief emergency extension of the red light signal for cross traffic - a delay that prevents cross traffic from entering the intersection while the violating vehicle is running the light.

    B-roll Available (content follows)
    --Red lights changing
    --Red light cameras
    --Mustang running the red light
    --Motorcycle officer enforcement effort
    --Collision Avoidance
    --Accident simulation
    --Digital images (of violations)
    --Citation Composer
    --Citations

    Promo:
    Video footage with voice over

    SOT:
    David Fox
    President & CEO, Nestor Traffic Systems, Inc.

    Master Officer Mike Oliver
    Vienna, Virginia Police Department