OVI checkpoint Thursday night in Dayton

The Butler County OVI Task Force has a sobriety checkpoint set up from 7 to 10 a.m. today in Oxford. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

The Butler County OVI Task Force has a sobriety checkpoint set up from 7 to 10 a.m. today in Oxford. NICK GRAHAM/STAFF

The OVI Task Force of Montgomery County will have a sobriety checkpoint Thursday night.

The checkpoint will be frin 6 to 10 p.m. in the area of South Keowee and East Fifth Street in Dayton.

Last week the Ohio State Highway Patrol kicked off a campaign focused on getting impaired drivers off Ohio’s roads.

The campaign, “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over,” will go through Sept. 7.

In 2019, there were 13,047 OVI-related crashes, resulted in 597 deaths, according to OSHP.

Last year in Dayton and Montgomery County there were 820 drug- or alcohol-related crashes, 13 of which were fatal, according to police.

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