Impaired Driving is also known as Driving Under the Influence (DUI) or Driving While Intoxicated (DWI). The term Impaired Driving is Canadian, while the other two versions are American terminology. Impaired Driving is also typically used to refer to a number of driving alcohol related offences such as Driving Over the Legal Limit (also known as Over 80 or Over .08), Refusal to Provide a Breath Sample, Failure to Provide a Breath Sample, or Care and Control While Impaired.
If serious injuries have resulted as a consequence of alcohol related driving, the charges may be upgraded, in the case of Impaired Driving for example, to Impaired Driving Causing Bodily Harm or Impaired Driving Causing Death.Our role is to know all the requirements the police must comply with as well as or better than the police. To the extent that the police do not follow those procedures and violate your rights, the evidence they obtain may not be admitted in court.more...See more text