Salvaggio v. North Dakota Department of Transportation

YANDE WALLE, Justice.

Anthony James Salvaggio appealed from a district court judgment affirming the administrative suspension of Salvaggio’s motor vehicle operator’s license. We affirm.

Dana King, North Dakota Highway Patrolman, was called early on January 10, 1991, to a rural intersection near Langdon, where a vehicle was reported to be “stuck in the ditch.” When King arrived, he found a pickup nosed into the ditch. The engine was running and a man was asleep in the passenger side of the bench seat. Salvaggio was at the rear of the pickup attempting to put chains on the left rear tire.

King…