DUI Acronyms
If you've been arrested for drunk driving, you may have been surprised at the crime you were charged with. Commonly referred to as DUI (Driving Under the Influence) or DWI (Driving While Intoxicated), driving drunk is known by a variety of names around the United States.
Here's a look at what some of these terms are, what they stand for, and where they're used.
- DAI: Driving After Imbibing Alcohol
- DUBAL: Driving with an Unlawful Blood Alcohol Level
- DUI: Driving Under the Influence of Drugs or Alcohol
- DUII: Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicants
- DUIL: Driving Under the Influence of Liquor
- DWAI: Driving While Ability Impaired
- DWI: Driving While Intoxicated or Driving While Impaired
- DWUI: Driving While Under the Influence
- OMVI: Operating a Motor Vehicle while under the Influence of alcohol
- OUI: Operating Under the Influence
- OUIL: Operating Under the Influence of Liquor
- OVI: Operating a Vehicle while Intoxicated
- OWI: Operating While Intoxicated, Operating While Impaired
- UBAC: Driving with an Unlawful Bodily Alcohol Content
- UBAL: Driving with an Unlawful Blood Alcohol Level
DUI Acronyms by State
Alabama: DUI, DWI
Alaska: DUI, DWI
Arizona: DUI, DWI
Arkansas: DWI, DUI
California: DUI, DWI, OUI
Colorado: DUI, DWI, DWAI
Connecticut: DWI, DUI
Delaware: DUI
Florida: DUI, DWI
Georgia: DUI, DWI
Hawaii: DUI
Idaho: DUI
Illinois: DUI
Indiana: DUI, DWI, OWI
Iowa: OWI, DWI
Kansas: DUI, DWI
Kentucky: DUI, DWI
Louisiana: DWI, DUI
Maine: OUI, DUI, DWI
Maryland: DUI, DWI
Massachusetts: OUI, DUI, DWI
Michigan: OWI, OUIL, DUI
Minnesota: DWI, DUI
Mississippi: DWI, DUI
Missouri: DWI, DUI
Montana: DUI, DWI
Nebraska: DUI, DWI
Nevada: DUI
New Hampshire: DWI
New Jersey: DUI, DWI
New Mexico: DWI, DUI
New York: DWI, DUI, DWAI
North Carolina: DWI, DUI
North Dakota: DUI
Ohio: OVI, DUI, OMVI
Oklahoma: DUI
Oregon: DUII, DUI, DWI
Pennsylvania: DAI, DUI, DWI
Rhode Island: OUI, DUI
South Carolina: OMVI, DUI, DWI
South Dakota: DUIL, DUI
Tennessee: DUI
Texas: DWI, DUI
Utah: DUI
Vermont: DUI, DUIL
Virginia: DUI, DWI
Washington: DUI, DWI
Washington, DC: DWI, DUI
West Virginia: DUI
Wisconsin: OWI, DUI, DWI
Wyoming: DWUI, DUI
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