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DUI checkpoint this weekend in Lancaster

by The AV Times Staff • January 24, 2013

LANCASTER – Deputies from the Lancaster Station Traffic Unit will be conducting a DUI/Drivers License Checkpoint on Friday (Jan. 25) at an undisclosed location in Lancaster, between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m.

Deputies will be contacting drivers passing through the checkpoint for signs of alcohol and drug impairment.  Deputies will also check for proper licensing and will strive to delay motorists only momentarily. Drivers caught driving impaired can expect jail, license suspension, and insurance increases, as well as fines, fees, DUI classes, other expenses that can exceed $10,000.

“Over the course of the past three years, DUI collisions have claimed two lives and resulted in 112 injury crashes harming 167 of our friends and neighbors,” said Sgt. Paul Pfrehm of the Lancaster Station Traffic Detail.

DUI checkpoints are a proven enforcement tool effective in reducing the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol involved crashes. Research shows that crashes involving alcohol drop by an average of 20 percent when well-publicized checkpoints are conducted often enough.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), checkpoints have provided the most effective documented results of any of the DUI enforcement strategies, while also yielding considerable cost savings of $6 for every $1 spent.  Checkpoints are placed in locations that have the greatest opportunity for achieving drunk and drugged driving deterrence and provide the greatest safety for officers and the public.

“Deaths from drunk and drug-impaired driving are going down in California,” said Christopher J. Murphy, Director of the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS).  “But that still means that hundreds of our friends, family and co-workers are killed each year, along with tens of thousands who are seriously injured. We must all continue to work together to bring an end to these tragedies.”

Funding for this checkpoint is provided to Lancaster Sheriff’s Station by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, targeting those who still don’t heed the message to designate a sober driver.

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Filed Under: Crime/ Safety

4 comments for "DUI checkpoint this weekend in Lancaster"

  1. Marty says

    January 25, 2013 at 10:58 am

    I’m just thinking out loud here, should not the point of a DUI checkpoint be to surprise the public? Every year we read how one is going to be here or there.

    • Yo Mama says

      January 25, 2013 at 12:01 pm

      That would constitute an illegal search. If they announce it, they’re covered.

      Also, you’ll notice they only mention the city it will be in, not the street…

    • Thomas says

      January 26, 2013 at 8:31 am

      Marty they don’t catch the smart ones

      • Yo Mama says

        January 26, 2013 at 9:42 am

        Ha! Right!! Informed ones anyway…

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