The Kansas Highway Patrol and Labette County Sheriff’s Office are conducting a sobriety checkpoint next Friday, April 4th.
Technical Trooper Gary Boles says the purpose of these checkpoints is to decrease traffic crashes through awareness and enforcement. Sobriety checkpoints are aimed at reducing collision rates by identifying impaired drivers. The goal of this checkpoint is to encourage compliance with the alcohol related statutes of this state, by removing drivers from Kansas roadways that are under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.
Annually about 11,000 people are killed in alcohol related traffic crashes, averaging one alcohol related fatality every 39 minutes. These deaths are about 32% of the total traffic fatalities. Traffic related deaths are the greatest single cause of death for children. The proportion of fatal crashes that are alcohol related is about three times greater at night than during the day.
