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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Biking while drunk

SAN JOSE, Calif. — An appeals court in California finds the Department of Motor Vehicles wrongly suspended the driver’s license of a man who rode an electric bicycle drunk and refused to submit to an alcohol blood test. The appellate court says an electric bicycle is a bicycle, not a “motor vehicle,” so the rider is not subject to statutory driver’s license suspension provisions related to implied consent to blood testing.

Read the ruling here.

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