A police officer questions a motorist throughout a earlier DUI checkpoint in Tulsa. The Oklahoma Freeway Patrol’s ENDUI staff and a number of different companies will conduct a DUI checkpoint and patrols in Comanche and Mayes counties this weekend.
The Oklahoma Freeway Patrol ENDUI staff will accomplice with a number of companies throughout Mayes and Comanche counties this weekend to conduct a sobriety checkpoint and high-visibility patrols.
Troopers will likely be joined in enforcement by Comanche County sheriff’s deputies and Lawton cops at a checkpoint from 10 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday, in keeping with a information launch.
Excessive-visibility patrols additionally will happen earlier than, throughout and after a checkpoint starting Friday in Pryor and Mayes County and operating via the weekend. Troopers will likely be joined by Mayes County sheriff’s deputies, Pryor and Chouteau cops and officers of the Grand River Dam Authority Police.
“By asserting the placement and occasions of the checkpoints, a notion of danger is created,” the Oklahoma Freeway Security Workplace wrote in a information launch. “Individuals who might routinely drive impaired, or who’re doing so for the primary time, might imagine twice about that call in the event that they know that further enforcement is within the space.
“This straightforward selection may save numerous lives in Oklahoma.”
In 2019, 338 folks have been killed in drug- or alcohol-related crashes in Oklahoma, in keeping with the discharge. Not one of the crashes was an “accident,” as a result of each demise may have been prevented if the impaired driver had made the selection to not drive whereas below the affect, the Oklahoma Freeway Security Workplace wrote.
