State Police to Hold DUI Checkpoint During Memorial Day Weekend
While there’s never a good time to drink and drive, this weekend is an especially bad time to do so in Bucks County.
Troopers from the Trevose station will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint sometime between May 25-28. While the exact location of the checkpoint was not released, it will be held somewhere in Bucks County. According to station commander Sgt. Jonathan Nederostek, a sobriety checkpoint is a traffic safety exercise wherein state troopers systematically stop vehicles at selected locations to briefly observe drivers for articulable facts and/or behaviors normally associated with alcohol or drug impaired drivers. The goal of a sobriety checkpoint is to reduce the number of alcohol and drug related fatal and serious crashes, and to reduce the number of DUI drivers on state highways. According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, 158 people were …
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Beorge Gush
1:43 pm on Friday, May 25, 2012
Law Enforcement Officers put their lives on the line every day for us. At the very least, each traffic stop could be the last. We have to be thankful, that sometimes, they are there to help us (by taking care of people who could very well put is in danger) It's much more than just standing around! more ›