Police to set up sobriety checkpoint at Bay Bridge
Hitting the bars in Annapolis and then returning to Kent Island is always a bad idea, but it could be an especially costly mistake this weekend.
The Maryland Transportation Authority Police will conduct a sobriety checkpoint Saturday night on the Bay Bridge. The police plan to set up the checkpoint at an unspecified time at the toll plaza on the eastbound bridge.
Drivers who show no signs of intoxication will get a pamphlet. Those who do could wind up in handcuffs.
Posted by Michael Dresser at 5:42 PM | Permalink
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Categories: Maryland toll facilities, On the roads
Categories: Maryland toll facilities, On the roads
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Other things that are bad ideas:
Setting up traffic delaying sobriety checkpoints on summer beach getaway weekends at the biggest traffic bottleneck in the route everyone from the Baltimore area takes to get to Ocean City and back.
People as might as well turn off their engines and pitch a tent next to the road, because they won't be moving very far. And I'm not talking about the drunks, I'm just talking about vacationers. Is it really drunk driving if your car never moves because the route to the beach/home has turned into a parking lot?
Drunk driving is bad, but there's got to be better places to put these checkpoints. Maybe pick areas where folks are likely to travel but which have smoother traffic flows?
COMMENT: Generally these checkpoints are done around midnight, so there shouldn't be a big impact on traffic flow.--MTD
Posted by: John | July 22, 2011 7:10 PM