Highway Patrol To Conduct OVI Checkpoint In Knox County Friday Night

Patrol OVI Sobriety Checkpoint in Knox County

Mount Gilead – The Mount Gilead Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol announced today that an OVI checkpoint will be held in Knox County tomorrow evening (Friday).

The OVI checkpoint, funded by federal grant funds, is planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers. “Based on provisional data, 668 people were killed and 3,500 were injured in OVI-related crashes last year in Ohio.” Lieutenant Holloway, commander of the Mount Gilead Post, said “State troopers make on average 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.”

The location of the checkpoint will be announced Friday morning.