{"id":145050,"date":"2021-08-19T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=145050"},"modified":"2021-08-19T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T04:19:09","slug":"patrol-plans-ovi-checkpoint-on-127-in-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/08\/19\/patrol-plans-ovi-checkpoint-on-127-in-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrol plans OVI checkpoint on 127 in city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Independent staff and submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ohio State Highway Patrol, in conjunction with the Van Wert Police Department, announced Thursday an OVI checkpoint will be held from 8-10 p.m. Friday on US 127, in the city of Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OVI checkpoints, funded by federal grant funds, are planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The checkpoints will also be held in conjunction with nearby saturation patrols to aggressively combat alcohol-related injury and fatal crashes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who plan to consume alcohol should designate a driver or make other travel arrangements before drinking. Don\u2019t let another life be lost for the senseless and selfish act of getting behind the wheel impaired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent staff and submitted information The Ohio State Highway Patrol, in conjunction with the Van Wert Police Department, announced Thursday an OVI checkpoint will be held from 8-10 p.m. Friday on US 127, in the city of Van Wert. OVI checkpoints, funded by federal grant funds, are planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers.&nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 10:26:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}