Local authorities will be out in force this weekend as three different agencies plan to conduct drunkendriving checkpoints in the Victor Valley.
The California Highway Patrol Victorville office will conduct a checkpoint Friday, while the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department will hold checkpoints Friday and Saturday.
The exact time and location of Friday's CHP sobriety and driver's license checkpoint was not released. The Sheriff's Victor Valley Station has planned a checkpoint from 6 p.m. Friday until 2 a.m. Saturday at an unspecified location in Adelanto. The Hesperia Station's checkpoint begins at 6 p.m. Saturday and will continue until 2 a.m. Sunday at an unspecified location in Hesperia.
CHP spokesman Matt Hunt said the timing of the checkpoints was a coincidence.
"Each agency gets to pick their dates," Hunt said. "I think it's just chance that we all ended up having them on the same (weekend)."
Citing data from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, the Victor Valley Station release states that deaths nationally in crashes involving impaired drivers increased 4.6 percent last year, taking 10,322 lives. Last year, drunken driving was responsible for 802 fatalities in California.
The checkpoints are funded by the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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