Wolf v. North Dakota Department of Transportation

MESCHKE, Justice.

Perry Wolf appeals from a district court judgment affirming an administrative suspension of his driver’s license due to intoxicated driving. We hold that excessive engine noise gave an officer reasonable suspicion for an investigative stop, and we affirm.

One September night in 1993, near 1:40 a.m., Highway Patrolman Rick Richard was out of his patrolcar on a rural stretch of highway north of Beulah. Richard “heard a vehicle exhibiting a real loud exhaust noise, and it seemed to be accelerating rapidly.” “[A]s the vehicles passed us I noticed there was a loud popping noise ...…