Eleven people were cited for various offenses during a Long Beach Police Department checkpoint, police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Officers conducted the checkpoint from 6 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday near Pacific Coast Highway and Channel Drive, where five motorists were cited for allegedly driving without a valid license or with a suspended or revoked license, and six others were cited for unspecified traffic violations, according to the LBPD.<\/p>\n
A total of 1,305 vehicles passed through the checkpoint, with 441 drivers being stopped and screened.<\/p>\n
\u201cDUI\/CDL checkpoint locations are determined based on reported incidents of impaired driving-related crashes. The primary purpose of DUI\/CDL checkpoints is to promote public safety, increase awareness of the dangers associated with drinking or driving, and deter impaired and unlicensed or suspended drivers,\u201d police said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Cmdr. Jeremy Boshnack said impaired drivers pose significant risks to others and any measures to reduce the number of impaired drivers on the road improve traffic safety.<\/p>\n
Drivers charged with a first-time DUI offense could face an average of $13,500 in fines and penalties, which can result in a suspended license.<\/p>\n
Police officials reminded the public that impaired driving is not limited to alcohol, and that several prescription medications and over-the-counter drugs may interfere with driving.<\/p>\n
Although medicinal and recreational marijuana is legal in the state, driving under the influence of cannabis is illegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eleven people were cited for various offenses during a Long Beach Police Department checkpoint, police said Tuesday. Officers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,37751,63773,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-203131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-checkpoint","tag-cited","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}