Luther Sobriety Checkpoint Planned

Oklahoma Department of Public Safety sent this bulletin at 08/14/2019 12:15 PM CDT

Luther Sobriety Checkpoint Planned

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol ENDUI team will partner with the Luther Police Department and the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office to conduct a sobriety checkpoint in Luther on Friday, Aug. 16.

The checkpoint will run from 11 p.m. Friday until 3 a.m. Saturday morning in Luther. Officers, deputies, and troopers will also be conducting high-visibility patrols starting at 6 p.m. Friday and ending around 4 a.m. Saturday morning.

The goal is simple: to make Luther and northeastern Oklahoma County as safe as possible by getting impaired drivers off the roads. Additional deputies and troopers will be on duty looking for impaired drivers across the OKC metro area before, during, and after the checkpoint.

FOR RELEASE

August 14, 2019

MEDIA CONTACT

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

In 2018, 375 people were killed in alcohol and/or drug-related crashes in Oklahoma. These patrols and the checkpoint are proven tactics to reduce the number and severity of impaired driving crashes.

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.

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 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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