ASHLAND – The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced Friday that an OVI checkpoint will be set up in Ashland County on Saturday night.
The OVI checkpoint, funded by federal grant funds, is planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers.
“Based on provisional data, there were 10,744 OVI-related crashes in which 581 people were killed last year in Ohio,” Lieutenant Brad Bishop, commander of the Ashland Post, said. “State troopers make on average 25,000 OVI arrests each year in an attempt to combat these dangerous drivers…