MARION – The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced today that an OVI checkpoint will be held in Marion County tomorrow evening.
The OVI checkpoint, funded by federal grant funds, is planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers.
“Based on provisional data, there were 13,725 OVI-related crashes in which 652 people were killed last year in Ohio,” Lt. Lance Shearer, commander of the Marion 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.