Members of the Junction City Police Department, Geary County Sheriff’s office and the Kansas Highway Patrol will be conducting DUI check lanes Friday and Saturday in Junction City. The focus will be to detect and deter drunk drivers and arrest those over the legal limit.

The information on the check lanes was released by the JCPD.

Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest. is a national campaign organized by NHTSA, which focuses on combining high-visibility enforcement with heightened public awareness efforts. This campaign is designed to remind motorists that impaired driving is no accident, and will not be dealt with lightly.

Nationwide, one person every 39 minutes, approximately 37 people per day, or more than 13,000 people each year die in traffic crashes involving a vehicle driver or a motorcycle operator with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 or higher, which is the legal limit across the United States.