Drunken Driving Checkpoint (Somewhere) This Week
The location where the checkpoint will take place will be announced the morning before, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced Monday that troopers will operate a drunk driving checkpoint to deter and intercept impaired drivers this week. The county where the checkpoint will take place will be announced the day before the checkpoint and the location will be announced the morning of the checkpoint. "Based on provisional data, there were 332 OVI related fatal crashes in which 359 people were killed last year in Ohio," said Lt. Nakia J. Hendrix, commander of the patrol’s Ravenna post. "State troopers make on average 25,000 OVI arrests each year in combating these dangerous drivers. OVI checkpoints are designed to not only deter impaired driving, but to proactively remove these dangerous drivers from our roadways." The most …
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Christopher Hansen
9:03 pm on Monday, April 16, 2012
@Debbie assuming all drugs are as harmful as they are made out to be. Did you not smoke marijuana sometime in your life? Was it the horrible experience and gave you the cancer they said it would? more ›