Reminder: A DUI and driver license checkpoint will be held Saturday, September 5, 2015 in Mariposa from 6:00 P.M. to 2:00 A.M.
(SST Editor) If the past enforcement location is used this year look for the checkpoint near Happy Burger on Highway 140 in Mariposa.

September 5, 2015 - The California Highway Patrol will be out in force over Labor Day weekend, looking for drunk or impaired drivers and assisting motorists in need.

buzzed driving is drunk drivingDuring the Labor Day Maximum Enforcement Period (MEP), from 6:01 p.m. Friday, September 4, to 11:59 p.m. Monday, September 7, all available CHP officers will be on duty.

Forty-nine people died in California over both Labor Day weekends in 2014 and 2013.

Thirteen of the people killed in CHP jurisdiction in 2014 were not wearing seat belts.