Police to Set Up Sobriety Checkpoint Saturday

Drivers, stay sober and vigilant Saturday night. Elk Grove police will be setting up a checkpoint to nab intoxicated drivers between 8:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m.

As always, the checkpoint will be at "an undisclosed location" somewhere in Elk Grove.

Here's more from the Elk Grove Police Department press release:

Checkpoints are placed in locations that have the greatest opportunity for achieving drunk and drugged driving deterrence and provide the greatest safety for officers and the public.

Officers will be contacting drivers passing through the checkpoint looking for signs of alcohol and/or drug impairment. Drivers caught driving impaired can expect jail, license suspension, and insurance increases, as well as fines, fees, DUI classes, court probation and other expenses that can exceed $10,000.

 All too often, members of our community are senselessly injured or killed on local roadways by impaired drivers. “Over the course of the past three years, DUI collisions have claimed 8 lives and resulted in 78 injury crashes harming 110 of our friends and neighbors,” said Sergeant Audrey Haug, Traffic Bureau Supervisor.