DUI Checkpoint Scheduled In Temecula This Weekend

TEMECULA, CA — Motorists are suggested that deputies from the Southwest Sheriff’s Station will likely be conducting a DUI/driver’s license checkpoint in Temecula this weekend.

In response to the sheriff’s division, the operation will happen from 7 p.m. Friday to 1 a.m. Saturday at an undisclosed location within the metropolis.

“DUI checkpoints like this one are positioned in places based mostly on collision statistics and frequency of DUI arrests,” in line with the sheriff’s division.

Deputies will likely be checking drivers for correct licensing and searching for motorists drunk and/or medication, together with prescription and over-the-counter drugs that may intrude with protected driving.

“DUI does not simply imply booze. If you happen to take pharmaceuticals, significantly these with a driving or working equipment warning on the label, you is perhaps impaired sufficient to get a DUI. Marijuana can be impairing, particularly together with alcohol or different medication, and can lead to a DUI,” the sheriff’s division warned.

The Southwest Sheriff’s Station provides these reminders to forestall a DUI:

• All the time use a delegated sober driver — a good friend who shouldn’t be consuming, ride-share, cab or public transportation — to get house.
• See somebody who’s clearly impaired try to drive? Take the keys and assist them make different preparations to discover a sober means house.
• Report drunk drivers — Name 911.
• Internet hosting a celebration? Supply nonalcoholic drinks. Monitor who’s consuming and the way they’re getting house.

Drivers caught driving impaired and convicted of a DUI can anticipate to pay upward of $13,500 in fines, charges, DUI lessons, license suspension and different bills, to not point out potential jail time.