Sobriety Checkpoint To Be Held In Cuyahoga County Saturday

BROOK PARK, OH — An upcoming sobriety checkpoint will be held somewhere in Cuyahoga County on Saturday, the Ohio State Highway Patrol clarified on Friday morning. The exact location of the checkpoint will be announced on Saturday.

“Based on provisional data, there were 33 OVI related fatal crashes last year in Cuyahoga County, Lieutenant R. Gable, commander of the Cuyahoga Metro Post, said in a statement. “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.”

The checkpoint, which will be run by the Ohio State Highway Patrol with assistance from local police, will be funded through federal grants. The point of the checkpoint is to deter drunken driving.

In tandem with the checkpoint, law enforcement will increase their patrols around the checkpoint to "aggressively combat alcohol-related injury and fatal crashes."

The Patrol's last sobriety checkpoint was held in Cleveland on a Saturday night.