ENDUI Patrols and Checkpoint Planned in Oklahoma County

Oklahoma Department of Public Safety sent this bulletin at 05/09/2019 01:53 PM CDT

DUI Patrols and Checkpoint Planned
in Oklahoma County

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol ENDUI team will be partnering with the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office and Oklahoma City Police Department for extra patrols on Friday, May 10.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol and Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint and will have high-visibility patrols out before, during, and after the checkpoint. The checkpoint will run from 11 p.m. until about 1 a.m. Saturday morning in Oklahoma City.

The Oklahoma City Police Department will be adding extra patrols throughout their city limits searching for impaired drivers. The goal is simple: to make Oklahoma County as safe as possible by getting impaired drivers off the roads.

FOR RELEASE

May 9, 2019

MEDIA CONTACT

Cody McDonell
Cody.McDonell@dps.ok.gov (405) 479-7637

In 2017, 656 people were killed in crashes in Oklahoma; almost half of those (324) were killed in drug/alcohol-related crashes. This is up from 43 percent killed in drug/alcohol-related crashes in 2016 in Oklahoma.

Everyone is highly encouraged to find a safe ride by calling a sober driver, using a cab, Uber, Lyft or any other ride-share service. Better yet, have a designated driver. Have fun and enjoy life, but do not, under any circumstances, drive while impaired by alcohol or any other substance. The cost is too high. Let’s ENDUI.

The media is invited to attend this checkpoint to help us raise awareness about the impaired driving problem in Oklahoma. Interviews with members of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol will be available. To coordinate times, locations, and interviews, please email Cody.McDonell@dps.ok.gov.

The ENDUI enforcement team coordinates multi-jurisdictional events on a regular basis, including sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols. These efforts are needed to impact Oklahoma’s impaired driving problem across the state. The locations of these activities are driven by data from the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office and by local request.

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The ENDUI Oklahoma program is a program of the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office and is funded through impaired driving grants from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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ENDUI Patrols and Checkpoint Planned in Oklahoma County

DUI Patrols and Checkpoint Plannedin Oklahoma County

FOR RELEASE

MEDIA CONTACT

The ENDUI Oklahoma program is a program of the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office and is funded through impaired driving grants from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

DUI Patrols and Checkpoint Planned
in Oklahoma County