DUI Checkpoint on Tap for Baltimore County This Weekend

BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD – Before Super Bowl Sunday, Baltimore County Police Chief Jim Johnson will join area leaders to push sober driving.

Johnson is among several leaders who will address the media on Friday afternoon in Essex to announce the “40 on 40” program, according to a statement from Checkpoint Strikeforce, a multi-state effort to curb impaired driving.

In the “40 on 40” campaign, 40 officers will be posted along the Route 40 corridor from Howard to Cecil counties taking impaired drivers off the road from Friday to Sunday, the statement said.

Baltimore and Harford counties will hold DUI checkpoints in addition to increased patrols over Super Bowl weekend, according to the statement.

At a press conference Friday announcing the “40 on 40” patrol, the following agencies will be represented:

• Maryland State Police
• Maryland Transportation Authority Police
• Aberdeen Police Department
• Baltimore Police Department
• Baltimore County Police Department
• Bel Air Police Department
• Cecil County Sheriff’s Office
• Elkton Police Department
• Harford County Sheriff’s Office
• Havre De Grace Police Department
• Howard County Police Department.

In addition, the wife of an officer hit by a drunk driver in Howard County last year—Éva O’Croinin—will be in attendance. Her husband, Officer Mike Marino, has recovered from his injuries and will be among those patrolling during the 40 on 40 operation.

The initiative is supported by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, which selected Maryland and this stretch of highway based on crash data from the past several years, according to police. The data was not immediately available.

After the 7 p.m. Friday press conference at the Golden Ring Barrack to announce the weekend campaign, police will deploy along the Route 40 corridor.

Still from Washington Regional Alcohol Program/YouTube.