DUI checkpoint next week

DOWNEY – The Downey Police Department will hold a DUI and driver’s license checkpoint at an undisclosed location in Downey next Friday, Aug. 29, starting at 8 p.m. “Over the course of the past three years, DUI collisions have claimed no lives but resutled in 101 injury crashes, harming nearly 150 of our friends and neighbors,” Sgt. Perry Miller of the Downey Police Department said.

Funding for the checkpoint is funded by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

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Published: Aug. 21, 2014 - Volume 13 - Issue 19