Hartford PD Plans Drunk/Impaired Driving Checkpoint

HARTFORD, CT — City police will have a drunk/impaired driving checkpoint in Hartford Thursday evening, July 24, into the early morning hours of Friday, July 25.

The Hartford Police Department said its traffic division will have a checkpoint set up in the area of 100 New Park Ave., Hartford, from 5 p.m. Thursday to 1 a.m. Friday.

It is part of the HPD's expanded impaired driving enforcement program, and it is supervised by the department's traffic division.

The initiative is funded from a grant courtesy of the Connecticut Department of Transportation's drunk/impaired driving enforcement program.

HPD officials said notifying the public in advance of such an endeavor is required, with the goal being to keep people off the roads if they're impaired.

"We value lives and the safety of our roads," the HPD said in a statement this week. "We are legally required to make notification ahead of time of our checkpoints. Together, we have been able to reduce the number of fatal and non-fatal accidents in our city. Help us in our mission to reduce our fatal accidents to zero."

For more information on the HPD's checkpoint, click on this link.