HOWLAND TWP., Ohio - The Ohio State Highway Patrol and the Howland Township Police Department will conduct an OVI checkpoint in Trumbull County on Saturday night.

According to a media release from the patrol, the checkpoint will be held from 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm on Elm Road.

The OVI checkpoint, funded by federal grant funds, is planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers.

The checkpoint will also be held in conjunction with nearby saturation patrols to combat impaired driver-related injuries and fatal crashes.

“Based on provisional data, there were 379 OVI-related fatal crashes in which 405 people were killed last year in Ohio,” Lieutenant D. W. Morrison, commander of the Warren post, said. “State troopers make an average of 25,000 OVI arrests each year in an attempt to combat these dangerous drivers. OVI checkpoints are designed to not only deter impaired driving but to proactively remove these dangerous drivers from our roadways."

In 1990 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that holding sobriety checkpoints without first notifying drivers would violate the Constitution's provision barring illegal search and seizure.

However, in their ruling, the justices did not specify what they considered adequate notification.

That same year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published recommended procedures for OVI checkpoints, including notifying the media of the planned roadblocks.