Yes, you can be charged with drunk driving a boat. It’s called boating while impaired (BWI), and BWI applies to motorboats, sailboats, and even canoes and kayaks.
Category: Driving While Impaired (DWI)
Drugged Driving DWI During Coronavirus Stay-at-Home
Drive on the empty streets of New York in a very expensive and fast car during coronavirus stay-at-home ends with arrest for drugged driving DWI, hit & run.
About North Carolina DWI Sentencing
In North Carolina, misdemeanor DWI sentencing is divided into six different punishment levels based on aggravating and mitigating factors.
What are DWI Field Sobriety Tests?
Only three field sobriety tests make up a DWI investigation: the HGN test, the W&T test and the OLS test. They should be given the same way every time or they have no validity.
Understanding Under the Influence of an Impairing Substance and Alcohol Concentration
DWI in North Carolina can be proven by evidence of impairment or by alcohol concentration of .08 or more, but there are defenses to both.
Driving While Impaired on Drugs
DWI on drugs is charged and punished the same as alcohol. Learn more.