Comments on: Ride Bike Drunk, Go to Jail (in D.C.)

By: Public Service Announcement: Don’t Drive Your Beer Cooler Drunk | The View From LL2

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 02:58:57 +0000

[...] precedent for this sort of thing (at least in other Commonwealth countries). And at least in DC, the precedent seems clear: you gotta keep your cooler off the roads. That’s probably for the best, given that these [...]

By: south

south — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:28:56 +0000

where I come from, even wheelchairs and horses fall under the DUI law — but being caught is the difficult part, since such drivers usually aren’t stopped for testing unless something looks seriously awry. Anyway, as the victim of a serious drunken bicycle accident (OK, I was the rider) I say it’s perfectly all right for this to be illegal.

By: Joe T.

Joe T. — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:25:42 +0000

I vaguely recall that in Virginia, a bike is treated as a motor vehicle on roads where motor vehicles travel, but may be treated as a non-motor-vehicle elsewhere. The same context-sensitivity may be true in DC.