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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Motor Vehicle Injury — Alcohol-Impaired Driving: Publicized Sobriety Checkpoint Programs

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: August 2012

Workgroups: Substance Use Workgroup, Injury and Violence Prevention Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends publicized sobriety checkpoint programs to reduce drunk driving. In these programs, law enforcement officers systematically stop drivers to test them for alcohol impairment. Media efforts to publicize sobriety checkpoints are an important part of these programs.

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Objectives related to this resource (1)

Reduce the proportion of motor vehicle crash deaths that involve a drunk driver — SU‑11
Getting worse

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Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2012). Motor vehicle injury — alcohol-impaired driving: Publicized sobriety checkpoint programs. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/motor-vehicle-injury-alcohol-impaired-driving-publicized-sobriety-checkpoint-programs