State police will conduct Schuylkill checkpoints

Troopers from the Frackville barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police will be conducting DUI checkpoints on Schuylkill County roadways from Thursday through Sept. 5.

A sobriety checkpoint is a traffic safety checkpoint whereby troopers systematically stop vehicles at selected locations to briefly observe drivers for articulable facts and/or behaviors normally associated with alcohol or drug-impaired drivers.

The goal of the sobriety checkpoint is to reduce the number of alcohol and drug-related fatal and serious crashes, and to reduce the number of DUI drivers on Pennsylvania's highways.

State police say they are committed to maintaining a safe environment for the motoring public and the checkpoint is intended to achieve this goal.