Knoxville Police and the Tennessee Highway Patrol conducting sobriety checkpoints today.
KPD will be on Kingston Pike in West Knoxville and the THP will be on East Emory Road and Washington Pike in Knox County, State Route 116 at Little Cove Creek in Campbell County and in Monroe county on State route 322 at state route 72.
Alcohol or drug impairment possibly contributed to over 43 percent of the fatal crashes that happened in Knoxville last year.
