The Shelton Police Department will conduct a DUI enforcement checkpoint on Friday, Jan. 8.
The checkpoint will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., at River Road by Seneca Road, Bridgeport Avenue by Armstrong Road, and Howe Avenue by Cornell Street.
The checkpoint will be headed by the Shelton Police Traffic Division with assistance from the patrol division.
The checkpoint is being partially funded by a grant from the State of Connecticut Department of Transportation.
The goal of the checkpoint is to make the roads in Shelton a safer place to drive. Drivers are reminded that drinking and driving do not mix.
At a recent DUI checkpoint in Seymour, no intoxicated drivers were pulled over, but police arrested two people on drug charges and issued more than a dozen infractions and warnings, according to a press release from the Seymour Police Department.
One of the people arrested on drug charges was found with about $4,000 worth of marijuana, police said.
Michael Martovich, 21, of 9 Lane Street, Seymour, was charged with possession of marijuana, possession with intent to sell, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession within 1,500 feet of a daycare or school.
According to the Connecticut Department of Transportation, the percentage of alcohol related fatalities in Connecticut during 2007, 46 percent, was slightly higher than the national average of 41 percent and slightly above the 41 percent in the other New England States.
Of the Connecticut fatal crashes, 39 percent were estimated to have been “high” Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) crashes – (BAC 0.08). The national estimate for “high” BAC crashes was 35 percent and was 38 percent in the other New England states.
