PLAINFIELD TWP., Pa. – Pennsylvania State Police say they will conduct a DUI checkpoint this weekend in Northampton County.<\/p>\n
The checkpoint will be conducted between the dates of Friday, May 29 and Sunday, May 31, according to a news release from state police.<\/p>\n
A sobriety checkpoint is a traffic safety checkpoint where troopers systematically stop vehicles at selected locations to briefly observe drivers for signs of alcohol or drug impairment.<\/p>\n
State police say the goal of a 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\u2019s highways.<\/p>\n
State law says any driver who willfully fails or refuses to bring their vehicle to a stop, or who otherwise flees or attempts to elude a pursuing police officer, could be charged with a third-degree felony.<\/p>\n
If convicted, the driver would face a maximum sentence of seven years in prison, a $15,000 fine, and restitution for damages and\/or injuries sustained as a result of the pursuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLAINFIELD TWP., Pa. – Pennsylvania State Police say they will conduct a DUI checkpoint this weekend in Northampton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,41637,1856,434,1224,38061],"class_list":["post-203119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-dui-checkpoint","tag-law-enforcement","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-sobriety-checkpoint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}