The Vanderburgh County Sheriff s office announced that this weekend they ll be conducting a sobriety checkpoint on Saturday March 13th. The reason for the checkpoint they say is due to St. Patrick s Day and the NCAA tournament, both they explain are heavy drinking events.
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To help curb drunk driving they ve announced they ll be conducting a DUI/sobriety checkpoint. They won t release the location of that checkpoint, but they said it will be placed based on traffic analysis data.
Here s what their news release says:
The Evansville-Vanderburgh County Traffic Safety Partnership will conduct a sobriety checkpoint this Saturday, March 13, 2021 from 10:00 PM until 2:00 AM on March 14, 2021. Law enforcement officers from the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office and Evansville Police Department will join together to conduct this checkpoint as a part of a statewide enforcement campaign designed to detect and deter impaired driving during two of the heaviest drink