DUI checkpoint set for Torrance
Police will conduct a sobriety and driver's license checkpoint from 8:30 p.m. Friday to 3 a.m. Saturday in the soutbound lanes of the 600 block of Palos Verdes Boulevard in Torrance.
Torrance police will be joined by officers from other agencies.
Police said the goal is to contact and educate drivers about the dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, and to remove impaired and irresponsible drivers from the roadway to reduce the number of people killed or injured in alcohol-related traffic collisions.
By the way, if you are down in Orange County on Friday night, sheriff's deputies will conduct extra patrols to track down drunken drivers in San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano and Dana Point.
Don't drink and drive and you won't have a problem like this guy:
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I went through this checkpoint last night. A total fiasco. There must have 30 officers lined up at the checkpoint. I was stopped by three different officers as I rolled through the checkpoint. The first officer examined my license and had me watch his finger as he moved it around. When everything was fine he told me to have a nice evening and go. As I proceeded on an officer about twenty yards further down the road waved at me and started to question me. I said I already went through this and so he waved me through. Then the very last officer in the line stopped me and wanted to see my license. These guys had no system in place where the officers at the end of the line could identify who had already been checked. Totally inefficient and incompetent procedures. With every car getting stopped two or three times, no wonder there were a couple hundred cars backed up burning up gasoline at about $3,000 an hour. I'm sure I wasted 5 bucks worth waiting in line for about 20 minutes.