A DUI checkpoint will be in operation in Compton from 6 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday.
Deputies will be looking for signs of alcohol and drug impairment and checking drivers for proper licensing, according to sheriff’s Sgt. Daniel Dail of the Traffic Services Detail.
Authorities said well-publicized DUI checkpoints and proactive DUI patrols are proven deterrents, reducing the number of people killed and injured in alcohol- and drug-involved crashes by up to 20 percent.
“Over the course of the past three years in the contract cities policed by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, DUI collisions have claimed 33 lives and resulted in 898 injury accidents harming 1,330 of our friends and neighbors,” Dail said.
— City News Service