continuing its efforts at lowering the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol involved crashes

locally and through the County’s Avoid DUI Task Force Campaign with this DUI/Drivers License

checkpoint. Personnel will be checking drivers to identify offenders and get them off the street, as well as

heightening awareness to the dangers of impaired driving.

The summer months are a dangerous time of the year and your odds of being involved in an alcohol

involved collision can be high. In 2008 law enforcement statewide reported that 7,801 people were

injured or killed during the three summer months of June, July and August.

A major component of the checkpoints, beyond taking dangerous drivers off the road, is to increase

awareness of the consequences of impaired driving and to encourage using sober designated drivers. A

DUI checkpoint is a proven effective method for achieving this goal. By publicizing these enforcement

and education efforts, the Costa Mesa Police Department believes motorists are deterred from drinking

and driving.