The South Dakota Highway Patrol is setting up 17 sobriety checkpoints across 15 counties during the month of May.
The monthly checkpoints are designed to encourage sober driving, according to the Department of Public Safety. The Highway Patrol conducts them with the help of local law enforcement agencies.
Checkpoints are scheduled for Brookings, Meade, Walworth, Beadle, Yankton, Charles Mix, Pennington, Minnehaha, Jones, Lawrence, Codington, Stanley, Brown, Fall River, and Day counties.
In 2021, 56 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes in South Dakota. That accounted for more than one-third of total crash fatalities, officials said.