The South Dakota Highway Patrol will conduct sobriety checkpoints in 17 counties during the month of June.
In the central part of the state, the checkpoints will take place in Hughes, Jones and Lyman Counties. Sobriety checkpoints will also be held in Beadle, Brookings, Brown, Codington, Davison, Day, Fall River, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, Meade, Minnehaha, Pennington and Yankton counties.
The monthly checkpoints are intended to discourage impaired driving. Officials remind drivers not to drink and drive, regardless of whether a checkpoint is scheduled in their county. Drivers who have been drinking are encouraged to designate a sober driver or use commercial or public transportation.
The sobriety checkpoints are funded by the South Dakota Office of Highway Safety and conducted by the South Dakota Highway Patrol with assistance from local law enforcement agencies.
The Office of Highway Safety and the Highway Patrol are agencies of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.
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