Very drunk driver?

[eldar]

The case here seems to indicate the driver was 18 times the drink drive limit. I assume that level would normally result in death or coma, so presumably mis reporting?


Man who wedged car outside Bath hotel gets driving ban https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-663...

[douglasb]

I think death/coma becomes likely at a breath reading of around 400.

The other thing that doesn't seem right is that he only got a 15 month ban. For such an excessive reading you'd expect a long ban, a lot of community service and a possible custodial sentence (a few years ago a friend's son got done for a reading of around 100 and got - from memory - a 30 month ban and 200 hours community service plus a hefty fine). Perhaps the reporter missed a decimal point. A 15 month ban is more consitent with a reading of 65.6.

[LosingGrip]

I don't think it's a typo for breath. You don't get .5 results.

Could be blood but that's still 8.2 times the limit. Or urine but it's still 6.1 times the limit.

https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/magi...

The fact it just says a 15 month ban (plus fines) and not anything else its got to be a reading on the last row.

[Aretnap]

65 or 56 typed by someone with fat fingers? (More likely 56 given the length of the ban)