Friday, November 16, 2012
The exact location and time will be announced Saturday morning.
On Saturday evening, the Ohio State Highway Patrol will conduct a drunken driving checkpoint somewhere in Portage County. The exact location of the checkpoint won't be released until Saturday morning. The checkpoint, funded by federal grant funds, is planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers. "Based on provisional data, there were 332 OVI-related fatal crashes in which 359 people were killed last year and 7,507injured in Ohio," Lt. Nakia Hendrix, commander of the Ravenna Post, said. "State troopers make on average 25,000 OVIarrests each year in combating these dangerous drivers. OVI checkpoints are designed to not only deter impaired driving,but to proactively remove these dangerous drivers from our roadways." Check Patch Saturday …
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The Ohio State Highway Patrol said it will announce the location the morning of the operation.
There will be an OVI checkpoint somewhere in the area this week, but the Ohio State Highway Patrol has not announced the location or day yet. The patrol announced in a press release Monday morning from Ravenna that sometime in the next seven days a sobriety checkpoint will be set up to "deter and intercept impaired drivers." The day before the checkpoint is set up, the county where it will take place will be announced. The morning of the checkpoint, the location will be announced. “Based on provisional data, there were 332 OVI related fatal crashes in which 359 people were killed last year in Ohio,” said Lt. Nakia J. Hendrix, Commander of the Patrol’s Ravenna Post. “State troopers make on average 25,000 OVI arrests each year in combating …
Friday, August 3, 2012
Information provided by the Bath Township Police Department.
Editor's note: This story was updated at 1:40 p.m. on Aug. 3 to correct an error. On July 28, the Bath Township Police Department received a half dozen calls about a car driving north on Interstate 77 in the southbound lanes, according to a police report. Police Chief Michael McNeely said Tracie Pali, 38, of Akron, entered the southbound lanes at Ghent Road and drove nearly three miles before she stopped the car in the berm. She was near the rest area, McNeely said. Pali has two prior drunken driving convictions, McNeely added. When officers approached Pali, they could smell alcohol and she had glossy eyes and slurred speech, the report said. Pali failed several field sobriety tests. She refused a breath test. Police charged Pali with …
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Find out where in Portage County police will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint tonight until Saturday morning.
Brimfield Township, OH — This morning, the Ohio State Highway Patrol announced that a checkpoint will be set up on State Route 43 near milepost 9 in Brimfield Township. The checkpoint will be conducted from 10 p.m. tonight until 3 a.m. Saturday morning. The checkpoints are federally funded and local police departments assist in the operation. The purpose is to "deter and intercept impaired drivers," according to the OSHP. The last time a checkpoint was conducted in Brimfield, a total of 25 people were arrested on St. Patrick's Day. "Based on provisional data, there were 332 OVI-related fatal crashes in which 359 people were killed last year and 7,507 injured in Ohio,” Lt. Nakia Hendrix, commander of the Ravenna Post, said. “State troopers…
Saturday, April 14, 2012
The checkpoint will be set up from 10 p.m. April 14 until 2 a.m. April 15
The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced the drunk driving checkpoint in Portage County April 14 will be set up on State Route 59 in Kent near milepost 3. The checkpoint, funded by federal grants, will be conducted with the help of the Kent Police Department from 10 p.m. Saturday April 14 until 2 a.m. Sunday April 15. "The checkpoint will also be held in conjunction with nearby saturation patrols to aggressively combat alcohol-related injury and fatal crashes," according to a press release. The most recent checkpoint in Brimfield on St. Patrick's Day nabbed 17 drunk drivers.
Friday, April 13, 2012
The specific location of the checkpoint will be announced Saturday morning, the day of the operation.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced a drunk driving checkpoint will be set up in Portage County Saturday evening. The exact location will be announced Saturday morning. “Based on provisional data, there were 332 OVI-related fatal crashes in which 359 people were killed last year and 7,507 injured in Ohio,” Lt. Nakia Hendrix, commander of the Ravenna Post, said. “State troopers make on average 25,000 OVI arrests each year in combating these dangerous drivers. OVI checkpoints are designed to not only deter impaired driving, but to proactively remove these dangerous drivers from our roadways.” The latest checkpoint was in Portage County in Brimfield on St. Patrick's Day. Officers arrested 17 for drunk driving.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
The following information was supplied by the Bath Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Bath Police removed two suspected drunk drivers from the roadways this past week, in one case averting the possibility of a head-on collision on I-77. At 2:43 a.m. on April 1, a Bath officer saw two cars heading the wrong way on an I-77 ramp from Ghent Road. The vehicles were traveling north on the off ramp for southbound I-77 traffic. “Both cars were stopped before they got into a head-on accident,” the officer wrote in his report. The driver of the first car, he said, “had an odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from her.” Police said she performed poorly on field sobriety tests, was arrested and taken to the Bath police department for processing. At the station, the 24-year-old woman was given an alcohol breath test and registered a …
Friday, December 2, 2011
The following information was supplied by the Fairlawn Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
A Michigan man was arrested at 4:18 a.m. Saturday after Fairlawn Police clocked his Mercedes Benz zipping along Interstate 77 at 107 mph. Officers said they could smell alcohol after approaching the stopped vehicle. A Fairlawn officer reported he was running stationary radar on the I-77 northbound entrance ramp from Ridgewood Road when he saw a 1997 Mercedes Benz 500 Series speeding north. Using radar, the officer clocked the vehicle going 107 mph in a 65 mph zone. The driver was stopped five miles away by a Bath Police officer. The Fairlawn officer arrived on the scene and said that when he approached the driver, he “smelled a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage from the inside of the vehicle. Defendant had glassy eyes and slurred speech…
Monday, November 7, 2011
The following information was supplied by the Fairlawn Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Three Fairlawn trick-or-treaters got a fright when they lost their ride and had to flag down police for help. Police found their ride – then arrested the driver, had the vehicle towed and secured a different ride for them. According to Fairlawn Police, an officer patrolling the Ridgewood Lane development was stopped by the kids at about 6:15 p.m. Oct. 30 during the citywide trick-or-treating event. The kids told the officer they lost their ride, which they identified as a black Chevrolet Equinox. The officer located the vehicle near the intersection of Village Parkway and Woodcrest Drive. When the officer approached the driver, the report stated, there was “a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from the vehicle.” Another officer …
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1:07 am on Thursday, December 13, 2012
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/810999.pdf "These ESTIMATES are based on data from NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). Unfortunately, known blood alcohol concentration (BAC) test results are NOT AVAILABLE for all drivers and nonoccupants involved in fatal crashes. MISSING DATA can result for a number of reasons, the most frequent of which is that people are not always tested for … more ›