11-04-2025
Summit County sets Easter weekend OVI checkpoints
AKRON, Ohio (WJW) — The Summit County OVI Task Force has planned sobriety checkpoints across the county on Easter weekend.
The OVI checkpoints are scheduled for Friday, April 18, into the early morning of Saturday, April 19.
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'Drive safe, drive smart, drive sober,' reads a Friday news release from the Summit County Sheriff's Office.
Locations of OVI checkpoints are typically released closer to their scheduled date.
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As of Monday, April 7, there were 2,267 OVI-related crashes in Summit County in the past five years, 134 of them fatal, according to Ohio State Highway Patrol crash statistics.
Most of the crashes occurred on Interstates 77 and 76 and state Routes 8 and 18, according to the patrol.
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