Driving with Alcohol in the Car: What You Need to Know

If you are driving with alcohol in your car, even a newly purchased bottle, make sure you understand Oklahoma law on transporting open containers. The law prohibits not only drinking while driving a motor vehicle, but also transporting any container of alcohol that has been opened, even if you are not drinking from it. Oklahoma’s open container law makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by a $500 fine and six months in jail, to “[k]nowingly transport in any vehicle upon a public highway, street or alley any alcoholic beverage except in the original container which shall not have been opened”. 37 O.S....

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