LAPD to conduct DUI checkpoint in Sherman Oaks tonight
SHERMAN OAKS >> The Los Angeles Police Department will set up a sobriety and driver’s license checkpoint today in Sherman Oaks to target impaired drivers.
Police will hold the checkpoint from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday at Ventura Boulevard and Columbus Avenue.
Over the past three years, there have been 7,048 DUI-related traffic collisions in Los Angeles, which have resulted in 60 fatalities and 2,818 injuries, police said.
The LAPD reminds everyone that they can assist in preventing DUI-related crashes by planning ahead of celebrations and gatherings by designating a non- drinking driver.
The DUI checkpoints are a strategy the Los Angeles Police Department is committed to in supporting Vision Zero, which is the city’s goal of ending all traffic-related collision deaths by 2025, police said.
The DUI checkpoints bring a laser focus to communities where DUI traffic collisions are occurring that are preventable through education and enforcement. Those enforcement efforts are funded by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, police said.
Locations of the checkpoints are subject to change or cancellation, police said.