VCU Police Set Sobriety Checkpoint

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Virginia Commonwealth University Police will target drunken and drug-impaired drivers beginning Saturday night, Sept. 29.

VCU Police will operate a sobriety checkpoint from 11 p.m. Saturday until 3 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 30.  The checkpoint will take place along the 1000 block of Main Street. Officers also will check for seatbelt compliance.

The checkpoint is being funded through a Zero Tolerance Grant from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles. Richmond Police officers will participate and agents from the Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Bureau of Law Enforcement have been invited to assist in the operation.

According to the National Center for Statistics and Analysis of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, nearly 17,000 people in the United States, including 347 in Virginia, were killed in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes in 2005, the most recent year for which such crash statistics are available.