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Members of the Armed Forces can be court martialed for drunk driving, [296] military bases can enforce New Jersey traffic law on civilians, [285] and it is a misdemeanor under federal law to drive while intoxicated on land administered by the National Park Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs, or the Postal Service.
1937 WPA drunk driving poster. New Jersey enacted the first law that specifically criminalized driving an automobile while intoxicated, in 1906. The New Jersey statute provided that "[n]o intoxicated person shall drive a motor vehicle." Violation of this provision was punishable by a fine of up to $500, or a term of up to 60 days in county jail ...
License suspension or revocation traditionally follows conviction for alcohol-impaired or drunk driving. However, under administrative license suspension (ALS) laws, sometimes called administrative license revocation or administrative per se, [1] licenses are confiscated and automatically suspended independent of criminal proceedings whenever a driver either (1) refuses to submit to chemical ...
Experts say impaired driving due to age is going to become a bigger problem in New Jersey. The number of residents over 60 is expected to surge this decade to 3 million ― a jump of almost 1 ...
A New Jersey police sergeant was charged with vehicular homicide after allegedly killing a man in a drunken wrong-way wreck earlier this month. ... assault by auto and driving while intoxicated ...
The specific criminal offense is usually called driving under the influence [of alcohol or other drugs] (DUI), and in some states driving while intoxicated (DWI), operating while impaired (OWI), or operating a vehicle under the influence (OVI). Such laws may also apply to boating or flying an aircraft. This applies to all vehicles, which can ...
LONG BRANCH — A city woman has been charged with driving while intoxicated after an NJ Transit train struck her vehicle Monday night, authorities said. At approximately 8:59 p.m., North Jersey ...
Impaired driving, referred to as Driving Under the Influence (DUI), or Driving While Intoxicated (DWI), is the crime of driving a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol or other drugs (including recreational drugs and those prescribed by physicians), to a level that renders the driver incapable of operating a motor vehicle safely.