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CHP to conduct DUI checkpoint Friday

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The California Highway Patrol will conduct a sobriety and driver’s license checkpoint in the Antelope Valley this Friday, July 31, officials announced Tuesday.

The checkpoint will be staffed by uniformed officers from the CHP who are trained in detecting alcohol and drug impaired drivers. Officers will be equipped with handheld, blood alcohol testing devices, which provide an accurate indication of alcoholic beverage consumption.

Traffic permitting, all drivers will be screened as they pass through the checkpoint. Drivers who exhibit signs of being under the influence of alcohol or drugs will be detained for further evaluation and field testing. Drivers who are determined to be under the influence will be physically arrested and their vehicles towed away. Any suspended or unlicensed driver passing through the checkpoint will be cited and their vehicles may be impounded.

Statistics show unlicensed drivers are much more likely to become involved in a fatal traffic collision than licensed drivers, according to the CHP. Sobriety/driver’s license checkpoints are effective in deterring motorists from driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and removing unlicensed drivers from local highways, CHP officials said.

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11 comments for "CHP to conduct DUI checkpoint Friday"

  1. What I don’t understand is why is there never a checkpoint where I live. (Hi Vista @ East Ave. G / 200th St. East) Its sucks because we need a checkpoint here with so much traffic. I mean like 2 years ago on a friday night the traffic was so good you can count all the cars that would pass by, the most was 7 cars. But now a days its worse than “parking lot 101” just last week I counted 9 cars, my girlfriend counted 10. Thats proof that so much traffic now that we can’t even count all the cars anymore.

  2. Dear LASD please kill all thugs and criminals from the AV so ProudeExAvResident could come back!

  3. Lived in AV, ended up in trouble. Left AV and was just fine. Moved back to AV, ended up in trouble. Moved away from AV again, never had a problem. Moved back to AV, ended up in trouble again. I have head this from many people-they never had any trouble until they moved to the Antelope Valley. AV is a wretched little half-azzed town without any better way to make money than wage war against it’s own residents. FTAV all day.

    • I know a lot of people who say the same thing about Santa Clarita…what do they have in common? Law enforcement contracted through the sheriff’s department.

      • Go Tim! Get those bad old Sheriffs. Oh wait, this is an article about the CHP having a checkpoint. I guess they’re allowed to take a turn.

        • Note that I was replying to a comment, not commenting on the article myself. As to the “bad old sheriff’s,” somebody’s got to stay on them. Fortunately, at least for the moment, they seem to be getting pretty heavy oversight from the feds. If we could get real long term reforms it would be great, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

    • Your story is an example of statistics at work.
      Here in the AV where streets are fairly wide open and easy to see down with a small population a person can be easily seen doing something dumb.
      In a larger city with more traffic and more things blocking the view like winding roads, bushes, buildings and nice skinny streets, it is harder to see a person and with a higher population more slip through.
      In brief, low population and decent size patrol force equals more law breakers caught, including those that do silly little things over and over and over. Plus the officers stay/live here so they get to know the cars and their owners.

      • Greg you have broke it down so good even a fool should be able to understand it. Greg for Mayor.

        • Gee, thanks for explaining 6th grade statistics. Face the facts, AV is a hick-azz hole without anything better going for it than waging war against the people who live there. Enjoy the surveillance plane.

          • @ProudExAVResident

            Where do you live now? Just name the city so we can look up crime stats there.

            You’re anonymous, so don’t be afraid to tell us what city. We won’t be able to find you.

            You’re not the first one to leave the AV and write comments similar to yours but never will tell us where they moved to.

            What are you afraid of?