Ohio Sobriety Checkpoint Location Revealed

HIGHLAND HILLS, OH — The Ohio State Highway Patrol will hold a sobriety checkpoint in Highland Hills on Saturday night. The checkpoint will be held on Northfield Road.

The checkpoint, which will be run by the Ohio State Highway Patrol with assistance from local police, will be funded through federal grants. The point of the checkpoint is to deter drunken driving.

In tandem with the checkpoint, law enforcement will increase their patrols around the checkpoint to "aggressively combat alcohol-related injury and fatal crashes."

"Based on provisional data, there were 33 OVI related fatal crashes last year in Cuyahoga County, Lieutenant R. Gable, commander of the Cuyahoga Metro Post, said in a statement. "State troopers make on average 25,000 OVI arrests each year in an attempt to combat these dangerous drivers. OVI checkpoints are designed to not only deter impaired driving, but to proactively remove these dangerous drivers from our roadways."

The Patrol's last sobriety checkpoint was held in Cleveland on a Saturday night.