LAPD Scatters DUI Checkpoints Throughout The City Through Sunday

LOS ANGELES, CA — Los Angeles police will be out in force Friday through Sunday looking for intoxicated drivers.

The Los Angeles Police Department will conduct a series of DUI checkpoints and a saturation patrol across a wide swath of the city.

"The DUI checkpoint locations are determined based on data showing incidents of impaired driving-related crashes and arrests," the department said in a written release. "The primary purpose of DUI checkpoints is to promote public safety by educating drivers on the perils of DUI and by taking suspected impaired drivers off the road."

The checkpoints come in a month of high-profile hit-and-run fatalities in the city including one in which three passing drivers within seconds of each other struck a pedestrian and fled the scene, leaving the man to die in the street.

The checkpoints and patrols this weekend will be held:

Friday, January 19

• DUI Checkpoint from 6 PM to 11 PM at Santa Monica Boulevard and Thayer Avenue
• DUI Checkpoint from 6 PM to 11 PM at La Brea Avenue and Obama Boulevard
• DUI Checkpoint from 6 PM to 11 PM at Western Avenue and 8th Street

Saturday, January 20

• DUI Checkpoint from 6 PM to 11 PM at Wilshire Boulevard and Union Avenue

Sunday, January 21

• DUI Saturation Patrol from 12 PM to 8 PM in Foothill Area