WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina |Recent DUI crashes lead to weekend checkpoints
Car crashed into Greek Boys restaurant (Source: CPD)
Police car from crash at Sumter and Hampton streets (Source: CPD)
Police car from crash at Sumter and Hampton streets (Source: CPD)COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Columbia-area police agencies are teaming up to operate DUI safety checkpoints this weekend following a string of recent DUI-related crashes.
Officers from Columbia Police, University of South Carolina Police Department and the South Carolina Highway Patrol will focus their efforts on areas throughout Columbia where DUI related collisions and offenses have occurred. Those areas include the Vista, Five Points, and along main roadways like Assembly Street, Elmwood Avenue, Gervais Street, Huger Street and Blossom Street.
The checkpoints run from Friday night through Sunday night.
Officers will be looking for impaired drivers, drivers license violations and checking child safety seats.
Columbia Police Chief Randy Scott says in the past several months, five Columbia police officers have been hit by drunk drivers.
Two crashes occurred last weekend. Fort Jackson Military Police Officer Joshua Waters was charged with DUI and open container after investigators say he crashed into a police cruiser at Sumter and Hampton Streets in downtown Columbia Saturday morning. After hitting the police car, investigators say Waters' vehicle crashed into the Greek Boys Restaurant on Sumter Street.
And Sunday, a suspected drunk driver crashed into a police officer at the intersection of Gervais and Washington Streets.
The officers involved in those wrecks were treated at local hospitals. None of them sustained serious injuries.
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