JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ohio – The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced Friday that an OVI checkpoint will be held in Jefferson County Saturday evening.
The OVI checkpoint, funded by federal grant funds, is planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers.
“Based on provisional data, there were 637 OVI-related fatal crashes in which 685 people were killed last year in Ohio,” Lieutenant R.J. Bodo, commander of the Steubenville Patrol Post, said. “State Troopers make on average 22,000 OVI arrests each year in an attempt to combat these dangerous drivers. OVI checkpoints are designed to not only deter impaired driving, but to proactively remove these dangerous drivers from our roadways.”
The location of the OVI checkpoint will be announced Saturday morning.
