{"id":446909,"date":"2026-08-29T05:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446909\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T05:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:18:18","slug":"sacramento-police-to-conduct-dui-checkpoint-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446909\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento police to conduct DUI checkpoint Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(FOX40.COM) \u2014 The Sacramento Police Department will check drivers for impairment Friday evening, the city said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the city, officers will be out from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. at a location that has experienced previous &#8220;impaired driving-related crashes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Impaired drivers put others on the road at significant risk,&#8221; Sergeant Anna Mahoney said. &#8220;Any prevention measures that reduce the number of impaired drivers on our roads significantly improve traffic safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city noted that alcohol is not the only substance that can cause a driver to be impaired. Some prescription and over-the-counter medications can also affect a person&#8217;s ability to drive as well as marijuana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Drivers convicted of a DUI for the first time face an average of $13,500 in fines and penalties, the city said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/fox40.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(FOX40.COM) \u2014 The Sacramento Police Department will check drivers for impairment Friday evening, the city said. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[119598,176455,1995,120479,121,123,122,177012],"class_list":["post-446909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-anna-mahoney","tag-fox40-news","tag-inc","tag-nexstar-media","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-the-sacramento-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446909","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=446909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}