Oklahoma City—The Oklahoma Highway Patrol ENDUI team will partner with the Cotton County Sheriff's Office to conduct an ENDUI checkpoint in Cotton County in conjunction with the annual Operation "Greensweep" in honor of Trooper Nikky Green, who was murdered in the line of duty in 2003. This checkpoint, along with high-visibility saturation patrols, will start on Friday, October 18th.
The entire operation period will run from 3:00pm until 3:00am.
The goal is simple: to make Cotton County as safe as possible by getting impaired drivers off the road and to honor a fallen hero.
In 2021, 407 people were killed in drug and/or alcohol-related crashes in Oklahoma. None of these crashes were accidents; every death could have been prevented if the impaired driver had made the smart choice not to drive while under the influence.
Everyone is highly encouraged to find a safe ride by calling a sober driver, using a cab, Uber, Lyft or any other ride-share service. Better yet, have a designated driver. Have fun and enjoy life, but do not, under any circumstances, drive while impaired by alcohol or any other substance. The cost is too high. Let’s ENDUI.
The media is invited to attend this checkpoint to help us raise awareness about the impaired driving problem in Oklahoma. Interviews with members of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol will be available. To coordinate times, locations, and interviews, please email megan.cardenas@dps.ok.gov.
The ENDUI enforcement team coordinates multi-jurisdictional events on a regular basis, including sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols. These efforts are needed to impact Oklahoma’s impaired driving problem across the state. The locations of these activities are driven by data from the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office and by local request.
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