Crime & Safety

Laguna Beach Police Plan DUI Checkpoints and Patrols This Weekend

The checkpoint is undisclosed, so you better watch out, and better not cry, if you get popped for a DUI ...

The Laguna Beach Police Department is apparently wasting no time spending the $32,000 grant they just received to combat drunk driving. The LBPD just announced that they will be conducting a DUI/driver's license checkpoint this upcoming weekend, which for some is a four-day-long affair leading into Christmas Tuesday.

The location is undisclosed, but will be within city limits on Friday, Dec. 21, from 9 p.m. till 3 a.m. There will also be roving DUI saturation patrols deploying in the city on Saturday night, Dec. 22, also from 9 p.m. till 3 a.m.

"Over the course of the past three years, DUI collisions have resulted in 60 injury crashes harming 85 of our friends and neighbors,” said LBPD Lieutenant Jeff Calvert.

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According to the LBPD, in California, alcohol- or drug-impaired driving led to 791 deaths because someone failed to designate a sober driver.

The department will also be checking drivers to ensure they have a valid driver’s license,

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