Highway Patrol plans sobriety checkpoints during January


The South Dakota Highway Patrol has announced sobriety checkpoints will be conducted in 17 different counties, including Codington County, during the month of January.

These checkpoints also will take place in the counties of Bennett, Charles Mix, Davison, Hutchinson, Lake/Moody, Lawrence, Lincoln, Meade, Minnehaha, Pennington, Roberts, Sanborn, Spink, Stanley, Walworth, and Yankton.

The monthly checkpoints are designed to encourage people to not drink and drive. The checkpoints are funded by the South Dakota Office of Highway Safety and conducted by the South Dakota Highway Patrol with the help of local law enforcement.

Officials remind drivers not to drink and drive regardless of whether there is a checkpoint planned in their county. People who have been drinking are urged to designate a sober driver or take an alternate form of commercial or public transportation.

 

Both the Office of Highway Safety and the Highway Patrol are agencies of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.