#Results from Sobriety Checkpoint held Friday night (3/18) at
— Dayton Police Dept. (@DaytonPolice) March 21, 2022
E. Third & Terry St. and S. Keowee & Fifth St.
Vehicles thru Checkpoints: 350
Diverted: 46
OVI Arrests: 0
Suspended/No License: 27
Seatbelt Violations: 3
Warrant Served: 1
Other: 2 pic.twitter.com/zjGbE8ZUbg
Three hundred and fifty people went through the checkpoints with 46 diverted, according to Dayton police.
There were 27 people cited for suspended or no valid operating license and three people cited for seat belt violations. Two people received “other” citations, but additional information wasn’t released by police.
No OVI arrests were made, but one warrant was served.
The goal of checkpoints is to reduce drug and alcohol-related crashes.
There have been at least 102 OVI-related crashes and 92 alcohol-related crashes in Montgomery County so far this year, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
From Jan. 1, 2018, to March 7, 2022, there were 2,633 OVI-related crashes in Montgomery County, with 533 in the city of Dayton, according to Dayton police.
State law requires that law enforcement announce times and locations of sobriety checkpoints in advance.
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