OVI Checkpoint in Union County Saturday

Marysville – The Ohio State Highway Patrol announced today that an OVI checkpoint will be held in Union County Saturday evening.

The OVI checkpoint funded by federal grant funds, are planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers.

“Based on the provisional data, there were 652 OVI related fatal crashes in Ohio during 2021,” Lieutenant Shawn Cook, commander of the Marysville Patrol Post, said. “State troopers make an average of 20,000 OVI arrests each year in an attempt to combat these dangerous drivers. OVI checkpoints are designed to not only deter impaired driving but to proactively remove these dangerous drivers from our roadway.”

The location of the checkpoint will be announced Saturday morning.