EFFINGHAM COUNTY, Ga. (WSAV) -- The Effingham County Sheriff’s Office (ECSO) has been awarded a High Visibility Enforcement (HVE) grant in the amount of $86,533 from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) in Atlanta.

Allen Poole, director of the Governor's Office of Highway Safety, said, “Crash data shows enforcement and education of traffic laws are two of most effective countermeasures to help our state and nation reduce crashes and eliminate deaths and serious injuries on our roads. Each life saved on our roads is one less family that will have to live with the pain of losing a loved one whose life was taken from them in a traffic crash that was completely preventable.”

Effingham County Sherriff Jimmy McDuffie said, “Receiving these grant funds for traffic enforcement enables

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