DUI Checkpoint In Mission Viejo This Weekend

MISSION VIEJO, CA – A DUI and Driver's License Checkpoint will be held by the Orange County Sheriff’s DUI Enforcement Team in Mission Viejo this weekend to stop and arrest alcohol and drug-impaired drivers.

The checkpoint will be held from 7 p.m. on March 9, to 3 a.m. on March 10. High Visibility Enforcement using both DUI checkpoints and DUI Saturation Patrols have proven to lower the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol or drug impaired crashes, according to the OCSD press release. Research shows that crashes involving an impaired driver can be reduced by up to 20 percent when well-publicized proactive DUI operations are conducted routinely, police said.

In California, alcohol-involved collisions led to 1,155 deaths and nearly 24,000 injuries in 2014 because
someone failed to designate a sober driver, according to the press release. Officers will be looking for signs of alcohol and/or drug impairment; when possible, specially trained officers will be available to evaluate those suspected of drug-impaired driving, which now accounts for a growing number of impaired driving crashes, the press release said.

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