The Citrus Heights police department will conduct a DUI and driver’s license checkpoint at Madison Ave. and San Juan Ave. on Friday. The checkpoint, which will run from 7:30 p.m. to 2 a.m., is part of an effort by the police department to lower the number of deaths and injuries caused by drunk driving, according to a press release from the department.

Several police departments have the same goal in mind. The Sacramento Police Department held a checkpoint Friday in Del Paso Heights. Five arrests were made, department officials said.

On Sunday, the holiday itself, three people were arrested for drunken driving in Sacramento. The arrested included a driver who sped away after getting into a fight and a driver who hit a parked car and then crashed into a garage.

In 2008, nearly 8,000 people were reported injured or killed during the months of June, July and August.

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