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Super Bowl Weekend DUI Checkpoints, Patrols Start Tonight; Look Out Silver Lake, Hollywood

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Super Bowl Weekend DUI Checkpoints, Patrols Start Tonight; Look Out Silver Lake, Hollywood

Friday, February 1, 2013 at 9:09 a.m.
By Dennis Romero
Super Bowl Weekend DUI Checkpoints, Patrols Start Tonight; Look Out Silver Lake, Hollywood
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If your idea of a solid Super Bowl involves a bowl of weed and a keg of beer, beware:

The LAPD is gearing up for a massive DUI crackdown that starts tonight and peaks on Sunday when the 49ers take on that other team.

Here's your drunk-driver checkpoint and "saturation patrol" cheat sheet for the big weekend:

-The fun will start tonight with a checkpoint at Roscoe Boulevard and Coldwater Canyon Avenue in the Panorama City area. It will happen from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., the LAPD says.


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-Saturday from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. there will be a checkpoint at Hyperion Avenue and Scotland Street in Silver Lake.


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On Sunday there will be a DUI saturation-patrol offensive in the following LAPD areas:

-Newton and Central (just south of downtown and downtown) from 2 to 10 p.m.

-Topanga from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.

-77th Street from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m.

-Hollywood from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m.

A recent AAA study found that drunk-driving deaths and accidents on Super Bowl Sunday have been on the rise in California in recent years.

The LAPD had this to say:

If you are planning or attending a Super Bowl party where alcohol will be served, plan ahead and designate a sober driver.

Be careful. And don't be a loser.

[@dennisjromero / djromero@laweekly.com / @LAWeeklyNews]

Dennis Romero
L.A. Weekly staff writer Dennis Romero has worked on staff at several magazines and newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los Angeles Times, where he participated in Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the L.A. riots. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone online, the Guardian, and, as a young stringer, the New York Times.

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