The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced today that an OVI checkpoint will be held in Ross County tomorrow evening. The location will be announced Saturday morning.
The OVI checkpoint, funded by federal grant funds, is planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers.
Based on provisional data, there were OVI-related fatal crashes in which people were killed last year in Ohio, Lt. T. J. Karwatske, commander of the Chillicothe Post, said.
“State troopers make an average of 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.”