Shelton Police DUI Checkpoint

The Shelton Police Department will conduct a DUI enforcement checkpoint on Friday, May 28, 2010 from 6:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. The roadblock will be conducted at Bridgeport Avenue in the area between Blacks Hill Road and the Commuter Lot, and/or Howe Ave at Cornell St. 

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 this holiday weekend. Drivers are reminded that drinking and driving do not mix. 

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 41percent 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. 

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