The Butler County OVI Task Force will hold a checkpoint tonight in Hamilton.
The checkpoint will be held from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. on U.S. 127. The exact location was not released.
Authorities will be combining the checkpoint with patrols in efforts to catch drunk drivers.
Traffic is funneled into one lane at a sobriety checkpoint in Fairfield on State Route 4 in 2007. Image provided by Glenn Hartong.
A drunk driving checkpoint will be held between 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. on Muhlhauser Road at Inter-Ocean Drive, in West Chester Township, the Butler County OVI Task Force announced this morning.
Patrols also will be stepped up in the area.
Law enforcement agencies are required to give advance public notice on checkpoint locations.
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A drunk driving checkpoint will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 a.m. Friday night through Saturday on Ohio 4 north of Wilbraham Road in Middletown, the Ohio State Highway Patrol announced this morning.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced Thursday morning that there would be a checkpoint somewhere in Butler County on Friday.
The OVI checkpoint, funded by federal grant funds, is planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers.
“Based on 2011 provisional data, there were 369 OVI-related fatal traffic crashes that killed 399 people last year in Ohio,” Lieutenant Ed Mejia, commander of the Hamilton Post said. “State troopers make on average 24,000 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.”
A drunk driving checkpoint will be held somewhere in Butler County Friday night, the Ohio State Highway Patrol announced Thursday morning.
The time and location will be released Friday morning. According to The Cincinnati Enquirer, most take place between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.
The OVI checkpoint, funded by federal grant funds, is planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers.
“Based on 2011 provisional data, there were 369 OVI-related fatal traffic crashes that killed 399 people last year in Ohio,” Lieutenant Ed Mejia, commander of the Hamilton Post said. “State troopers make on average 24,000 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.”
Traffic is funneled into one lane at a sobriety checkpoint in Fairfield on State Route 4 in 2007. Image provided by Glenn Hartong.
Jennifer Edwards Baker reports
A drunk driving checkpoint will be held between 6 p.m. and midnight on Ohio 747 tonight, the Butler County OVI Task Force announced this morning.
Patrols also will be stepped up in the area.
Law enforcement agencies are required to give advance public notice on checkpoint locations.
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Jennifer Edwards Baker
An OVI checkpoint will be held between 6 p.m. and midnight tonight somewhere on Tylersville Road in West Chester Township, law enforcement officials announced today.
Patrols also will be stepped up in the area.
The Butler County OVI Task Force is manning the operation.
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The Butler County O.V.I. Task Force will conduct a low manpower OVI checkpoint along state route 747 in West Chester Township from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. tonight, Aug. 19.
Meanwhile, a little further away the Ohio State Highway Patrol, in conjunction with Cincinnati Police Department, announced today that an OVI checkpoint will be held from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. tonight on Colerain Avenue, at Blue Spruce Road.
Furthermore, the Ohio State Highway Patrol, in conjunction with Miami Township Police Department and Clermont County Sheriff’s Office, also announced today that an OVI checkpoint will be held from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. tonight on SR 28, between Old SR 28 and Buckwheat Road, in Miami Township, Clermont County.
The checkpoints will also be held in conjunction with nearby saturation patrols to aggressively combat alcohol-related injury and fatal crashes.
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