Concord Police Department will be conducting a DUI Checkpoint this week between 9 p.m. – 3 a.m.
Officers will be looking for signs of alcohol and/or drug impairment, with officers checking drivers for proper licensing.
Concord Police Department reminds drivers that “DUI Doesn’t Just Mean Booze.” If you take prescription drugs, particularly those with a driving or operating machinery warning on the label, you might be impaired enough to get a DUI. Marijuana can also be impairing, especially in combination with alcohol or other drugs, and can result in a DUI.
In 2017, 1,120 people were killed in alcohol-involved crashes on California roads. Last year, Concord Police Department investigated 46 DUI collisions which claimed two lives and resulted in another 61 injuries.
Concord Police Department offers these reminders to ensure you have a safe night that doesn’t involve a DUI:
- Always use a designated sober driver – a friend who is not drinking, ride-share, cab or public transportation – to get home.
- See someone who is clearly impaired try and drive? Take the keys and help them make other arrangements to find a sober way home.
- Report drunk drivers – Call 911.
- Hosting a party? Offer nonalcoholic drinks. Monitor who are drinking and how they are getting home.
Getting home safely is cheap, but getting a DUI is not. Drivers caught driving impaired and charged with DUI can expect the impact of a DUI arrest to be upwards of $13,500. This includes fines, fees, DUI classes, license suspension and other expenses not to mention possible jail time.
Funding for this checkpoint is provided to Concord Police Department by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
FYI –
They were spray painting the ground on Clayton Rd. in front of KMart.
Same place they always do it.
If you really want to stop drunk drivers set up your saturation patrols at a Willow Pass park after the adult softball games half the drivers that leave the parking lots are drunk. This will never happen because the city turns a blind eye to all the drinking at Willow Pass Park.
And the other half were already drunk when they arrived.
And there in lies a story.
Concord conducts these things because they get state grant money to do so. Concord wants to keep the grant money coming in because it gives their police employees something to do. It’s just a revenue generating racket.