Law enforcement officers from Springettsbury Township, Spring Garden Township and the York Area Regional Police participated in a DUI checkpoint last weekend in Springettsbury, making a total of 15 DUI arrests. The checkpoint ran from 11:50 p.m. on Friday to 3:00 a.m. on Saturday morning. Of the 170 vehicles that passed through the checkpoint, police stopped 34 drivers - nearly 20 percent.

In addition to drunken driving citations, police also handed out tickets for a number of additional traffic violations.

This coming weekend, DUI checkpoints are set to be conducted in Adams and Lancaster Counties. While the official start and end times were not revealed, law enforcement officials did say that the checkpoints would occur sometime between 6:00 p.m. on Friday and 6:00 p.m. on Sunday.

For Pennsylvania drivers on the road this weekend, especially in Adams and Lancaster Counties, that means beware.

Checkpoints are set up as a way for police officers to make a large number of DUI arrests in a short period of time. They are able to do this by being laser-focused on a very specific stretch of road and pulling over every "suspicious" car that passes during that time.

The checkpoints are funded by federal grant money and organized under the Center for Traffic Safety's Sobriety and Expanded DUI/Underage Drinking Enforcement Program. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation also remains involved.

If you are pulled over and, you believe, wrongly accused of driving under the influence or having an illegal blood-alcohol content (BAC) level, don't take any drastic measures before consulting with a qualified DUI attorney.

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