The Truckee Police Department in conjunction with the California Highway Patrol, the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office, and the Grass Valley Police Department, we will be conducting a DUI/driver’s license checkpoint Sept. 3.

The Police Department’s goal for 2010 is to significantly reduce the rates of DUI-involved injury collisions in Truckee.

Collisions involving impaired drivers have dramatically decreased this year because of increased education and enforcement programs.

Still. DUI collisions are 100 percent preventable and are not accidents, according to the agency. TPD intends to aggressively enforce alcohol and DUI laws to achieve the goal of improved traffic safety for all motorists in Truckee.

Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.