Friday, August 27, 2010

Sobriety Checkpoint in Eastern Loudoun County Tonight

The Loudoun County Sheriff?s Office will conduct a sobriety checkpoint tonight, Friday, August 27, in Eastern Loudoun County.   
 
The sobriety checkpoint will be held from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Saturday morning. The Sheriff?s Office designed the checkpoints to raise public awareness and to discourage impaired driving. 
 
The sobriety checkpoint follows on the heels of the kick-off for the National Highway Traffic Safety Association?s (NHTSA) annual ?Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest.? campaign.

The NHTSA also released new data this week indicating that eight percent of all drivers, as many as 17 million people, have driven drunk at least once during the past year. The campaign, which will run through Labor Day, involves thousands of law enforcement agencies across the country, and is augmented by $13 million in television and radio advertising from NHTSA. 
 
The Sheriff?s Office currently conducts one checkpoint per month throughout the year and holds additional checkpoints during the holidays.

?Our ultimate goal is to ensure the roads are safe for all motorists by achieving voluntary compliance with the drinking and driving laws,? said Loudoun County Sheriff Steve Simpson. ?If you drink and drive, we?re going to catch you,? Simpson warned. The Sheriff?s Office designed the checkpoints to raise public awareness and to discourage impaired driving. 
 
Members of the Sheriff?s Office Auxiliary Unit and volunteers from the Loudoun Chapter of MADD will assist with the checkpoint.

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