Crime & Safety

State Police Hold DUI Checkpoint on Holiday Weekend

There's never a good time to drink and drive, but this weekend is an especially bad time to do so in Bucks County.

Between May 25-28, will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint somewhere in Bucks County. The exact location of the checkpoint was not released.

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.

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