{"id":285765,"date":"2026-09-14T14:34:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285765\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T14:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:34:41","slug":"pa-state-police-to-conduct-dui-checkpoints-this-weekend-in-lehigh-county-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285765\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa. State Police to conduct DUI checkpoints this weekend in Lehigh County | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BREINIGSVILLE, Pa. &#8211; Pennsylvania State Police say it will be conducting a Driving Under the Influence (DUI) checkpoint this weekend in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers will be conducting the checkpoint between the dates of Friday, September 18, and Sunday, September 20, state police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>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, state police said.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Pennsylvania State Police said it is committed to maintaining a safe environment for the motoring public.<\/p>\n<p>Police reminded motorists that any driver who intentionally fails or refuses to bring their vehicle to a stop or attempt to flee an officer could have a maximum sentence of 7 years in prison, a $15,000 fin and pay for any damages and injuries sustained as a result of the pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Pennsylvania State Police, you can visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psp.pa.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.psp.pa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREINIGSVILLE, Pa. &#8211; Pennsylvania State Police say it will be conducting a Driving Under the Influence (DUI) checkpoint&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,41637,433,1224,38061,5831],"class_list":["post-285765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-dui-checkpoint","tag-lehigh-county","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-sobriety-checkpoint","tag-traffic-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285765","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=285765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}