Crime & Safety
Sobriety Checkpoint Planned for Friday
Drinking and driving tonight is risking death, vehicular manslaughter, or at least an arrest in Redwood City.
Redwood City-based CHP officers are sure to catch drunken drivers Friday night, as a sobriety checkpoint is planned for the area.
Bringing a date to Redwood City? One of you better stay sober.
The checkpoint is planned for an unannounced location form 8 p.m. until 12 a.m.
"Every year, members of our community are injured or killed on local roadways by impaired drivers," Officer Art Montiel said. "It is the department’s goal to use this enforcement tool to assist with the reduction of injury and fatal collisions that are caused by drunk drivers. We are asking the public to designate a driver if they happen to allow alcohol to be part of their evening."
Checkpoints have proven to be a highly successful tool for reducing alcohol-related driving deaths.
“DUI checkpoints have been an essential part of the phenomenal reduction in DUI deaths that we witnessed from 2006 to 2010 in California,” said Christopher J. Murphy, Director of the Office of Traffic Safety.
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