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Friday, April 13, 2012

Ohio County Announced for Saturday Night Sobriety Checkpoint

The specific location of the checkpoint will be announced Saturday morning, the day of the operation.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced a drunk driving checkpoint will be set up in Portage County Saturday evening.  The exact location will be announced Saturday morning.  “Based on provisional data, there were 332 OVI-related fatal crashes in which 359 people were killed last year and 7,507 injured in Ohio,” Lt. Nakia Hendrix, commander of the Ravenna Post, said. “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 latest checkpoint was in Portage County in Brimfield on St. Patrick's Day. Officers arrested 17 for drunk driving.

In this Article:

Sobriety Checkpoint (Some Time, Somewhere) This Week, Sobriety Checkpoint on S.R. 43 on St. Patrick's Day Night (in Stow Patch), and Sobriety Checkpoint Southeast of Stow Nets 17 Drunk Drivers on St. Patrick's Day (in Stow Patch)

Monday, April 9, 2012

Sobriety Checkpoint (Some Time, Somewhere) This Week

When the place and time is announced, Patch will post an update on the site. Continue to check the site this week to find out the details.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced Monday morning that a sobriety checkpoint will be set up soon ... but the place and time has not been announced yet.  The county where the checkpoint will take place will be announced the day prior to the checkpoint and the location will be announced the morning of the checkpoint. The purpose of the checkpoint is to intercept impaired drivers, according to the OSHP.  “Based on provisional data, there were 332 OVI related fatal crashes in which 359 people were killed last year in Ohio,” Lieutenant Nakia J. Hendrix, Commander of the Patrol’s Ravenna Post, said. “State troopers make on average 25,000 OVI arrests each year in combating these dangerous drivers. OVI checkpoints are designed to not only …

In this Article:

Sobriety Checkpoint on S.R. 43 on St. Patrick's Day Night (in Stow Patch) and Sobriety Checkpoint Southeast of Stow Nets 17 Drunk Drivers on St. Patrick's Day (in Stow Patch)

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 ›

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