Sobriety Checkpoints: An Effective Tool to Reduce DWI Fatalities

More than 17,000 people die and half a million are injured every year from an entirely preventable cause of death, alcohol-related crashes. That’s one death every half hour. Research shows that the best ways to reduce these numbers are high-profile enforcement efforts, especially regularly conducted sobriety checkpoints. Recent studies found such checkpoints can cut the death toll by 20 percent.