Highway Patrol Announces Site Of Ohio Sobriety Checkpoint

CLEVELAND — The Ohio State Highway Patrol will hold a sobriety checkpoint on Lorain Avenue in Cleveland on Friday night.

The purpose of the checkpoint is to deter and catch impaired drivers. The Highway Patrol will also run additional patrols to aggressively "combat alcohol-related injury and fatal crashes."

"If you plan to consume alcohol, designate a driver or make other travel arrangements before you drink. Don't let another life be lost for the senseless and selfish act of getting behind the wheel impaired," the Highway Patrol said in a statement.

The sobriety checkpoint is funded by federal grant money.

"Based on provisional data, there were 33 OVI (impaired driving) related fatal crashes last year in Cuyahoga County," Lieutenant R. Gable, commander of the Cuyahoga Metro Post, said. "State troopers make on average 25,000 OVI arrests each year in an attempt to combat these dangerous drivers. OVI checkpoints are designed to not only deter impaired driving, but to proactively remove these dangerous drivers from our roadways."