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The St. Joseph Police Department announced Thursday that a sobriety checkpoint will be held in the city sometime this month.
St. Joseph Police along with the Northwest Missouri DWI Task Force plan to team up to conduct the sobriety checkpoint in St. Joseph during the month of July.
Police are asking motorists to cooperate if they find themselves passing through a checkpoint.
“Our goal is to take impaired drivers off the roads making them safer. If you find yourself in a checkpoint please pay extra attention to the posted signs and the officer working to make your community safer,” the department said in a news release.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration drunk driving kills more than 10,000 people every year. On average in 2012, one person was killed every 51 minutes in alcohol impaired driving crashes.