ENDUI Saturation Patrol Planned in Washington County and Nowata County

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol ENDUI team will partner with the Washington County Sheriff's Office, Bartlesville Police Department, Dewey Police Department, Nowata County Sheriff's Office, Nowata Police Department, and South Coffeyville Police Department to conduct a saturation patrol in both Washington County and Nowata County on Saturday, January 27th.

Efforts will run between 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. 

The goal is simple: to make Washington County and Nowata County as safe as possible by getting impaired drivers off the roads. Officers and troopers will be on duty looking for impaired drivers across the Washington County and Nowata County areas.

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 create a plan beforehand and have a designated driver before heading out to celebrate the holiday festivities. 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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