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us: Drunk driving


  • Here are entered works on drunk driving as a criminal offense. Works on the relation between alcoholic intoxication and traffic accidents are entered under [Drinking and traffic accidents.]

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  • Variants

    • us: Alcohol-impaired driving (Drunk driving)
    • us: D.U.I. (Drunk driving)
    • us: D.W.I. (Drunk driving)
    • us: Drink driving
    • us: Drinking and driving
    • us: Driving drunk
    • us: Driving under the influence of alcohol
    • us: Driving while impaired by alcohol
    • us: Driving while intoxicated
    • us: Driving with the prescribed concentration of alcohol
    • us: Drunk while driving
    • us: Drunken driving
    • us: DUI (Drunk driving)
    • us: DWI (Drunk driving)
    • us: Impaired driving (Drunk driving)
    • us: Operating under the influence of alcohol (Drunk driving)
    • us: OUI (Drunk driving)
    • us: PCA (Drunk driving)
    • us: Prescribed concentration of alcohol (Drunk driving)
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  • Sources

    • found: LC database, Jan. 9, 1997 (drinking and driving; drunk driving; drunken driving; driving drunk)
    • found: Nat'l. Criminal Just. Thes. (Driving under the influence UF Drunk while driving)
    • found: Drink driving please, 1998: p. 1 (Drink driving offenses come in two distinct categories: 1. Driving whilst under the influence of alcohol or other drug, commonly referred to as a DUI charge; 2. Driving with the prescribed concentration of alcohol, commonly referred to as a PCA offence)
    • found: Drink driving : the law in Queensland, 1998.
    • found: Final report, state of knowledge of alcohol-impaired driving, 2000: t.p. p. iii (driving while impaired by alcohol(DUI))
    • found: Monteith, W. OUI in America, 2006 (OUI)
    • found: OUI and other serious traffic offenses, c1989.
    • found: Miller, D.H. Commitments to Massachusetts county facilities for operating under the influence of alcohol during 1984, 1985.
    • found: Cohen, I.M. The nature and extent of impaired driving in RCMP jurisdictions in British Columbia, 2011.
  • LC Classification

    • HE5620.D7
  • General Notes

    • Here are entered works on drunk driving as a criminal offense. Works on the relation between alcoholic intoxication and traffic accidents are entered under [Drinking and traffic accidents.]
  • Example Notes

    • Note under [Drinking and traffic accidents]
  • Change Notes

    • 2005-07-29: new
    • 2011-11-15: revised
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