DUI Checkpoint Set for April 19 in Citrus Heights

A DUI checkpoint is planned for Friday night, April 19, in Citrus Heights. 

The DUI/driver's license checkpoint is set for somewhere in an undisclosed location with the city limits, from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. 

Citrus Heights Police officers will be checking drivers for signs of alcohol or drug impairment and proper licensing. 

“Over the course of the past three years, DUI collisions have resulted in 80 injury crashes harming 114 of our friends and neighbors,” said Citrus Heights Police Sgt. Jason Russo in a news release. 

According to the release, "Research shows that crashes involving alcohol drop by an average of 20 percent when well-publicized checkpoints are conducted often enough."

“DUI Checkpoints have been an essential part of the phenomenal reduction in DUI deaths that we witnessed since 2006 in California,” said Christopher J. Murphy, Director of the Office of Traffic Safety, in the release. “But since the tragedy of DUI accounts for nearly one third of traffic fatalities, the City of Citrus Heights needs the high visibility enforcement and public awareness that checkpoints provide.”

Funding for this checkpoint is provided to the Citrus Heights Police Department by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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