Highest drink drive reading

[baldy1926]

A woman was stopped in Kings Lynn and she blew 203!!!
That's the highest that I've come across im amazed she could stand let alone drive

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/woman_nearly_six...

[Reg Local]

I had a lower evidential sample of 185 once. The bloke was still able to walk and converse with us.

Couldn't tell the left side of the A6 from the right side though...

[dudleybloke]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3185917/Dr...

319!

[Fermit The Krog and Sarah Sexy]

Wait wait wait. The Fail says a 319 reading is four times the limit, yet the other rag states 203 is six times it, or am I missing something?!

[agtlaw]

80 in blood = 35 in breath

[Reg Local]

dudleybloke said:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3185917/Dr...

319!

Thats 319 in blood. The limit in blood is 80, whereas the limit in breath is 35.

319 in blood is the equivalent of about 140 in breath.

[Fermit The Krog and Sarah Sexy]

agtlaw said:

80 in blood = 35 in breath

Ah OK, makes sense now!

[UpTheIron]

I know of a 194 from some years ago, the lady in question was on her way to work mid-morning!

[Bigends]

232 here - elderly bloke had been an alcoholic for years PTSD from his army days in Malaya- never been caught driving. Saw his car outside the local chippie one evening - followed and stopped - blew 232.

[baldy1926]

The highest ive had was 158. That was from a barristers wife on the way to pick up her kids from school.
As i walked towards her car she was tipping perfume over the dashboard in an attempt to hide the smell.

[coopedup]

WTF do folks do this??? I get up at 04.30 most mornings and wonder if I could do it if I had a drink the night before!

[MrBarry123]

So this is the equivalent of downing 6 pints in a few minutes and then getting straight in the car for a little journey?

[Ki3r]

MrBarry123 said:

So this is the equivalent of downing 6 pints in a few minutes and then getting straight in the car for a little journey?

I would say it's more being an alohclic, I've seen some high levels (100+) and I generally believed they would blow under at the station.

Highest I've seen is 135, she had just been to McDonald's with her son. It was quite scary really.

[Geekman]

MrBarry123 said:

So this is the equivalent of downing 6 pints in a few minutes and then getting straight in the car for a little journey?

I had a bottle and a half of wine, couple of gin and tonics and a few vodka shots and tried a breathalyser which admittedly wasn't a genuine police one. It was a while ago but IIRC I blew around 140, so people blowing 200+ must be serious alcoholics who can easily drink amounts that would have me passed out on the floor.

[bomma220]

MrBarry123 said:

So this is the equivalent of downing 6 pints in a few minutes and then getting straight in the car for a little journey?

Someone who can down 6 pints in a few minutes and then can contemplate driving is a total & utter

[agtlaw]

MrBarry123 said:

So this is the equivalent of downing 6 pints in a few minutes and then getting straight in the car for a little journey?

Very high readings (120+ in breath) usually means drinking spirits or wine, and it helps to be an alcoholic. My PB is 165 in breath - from drinking wine. 2nd highest was 150 from drinking a bottle of vodka - found empty on the passenger seat - driver asleep on the motorway.

[creampuff]

bomma220 said:

Someone who can down 6 pints in a few minutes and then can contemplate driving is a total & utter

I don't think they would be contemplating much except the porcelain throne

[MrBarry123]

Ah right, yes, spirits make more sense.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I know blokes that can drink 10 pints (5 times the limit?) and still be quite coherent and walk in a straight line. I wouldn't get in a car with them but they would be nowhere near my idea of paralytic.

As for me, I'm wobbly after a bag of wine gums.

[grumpyscot]

baldy1926 said:

A woman was stopped in Kings Lynn and she blew 203!!!
That's the highest that I've come across im amazed she could stand let alone drive

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/woman_nearly_six...

Just think - if she'd been in Scotland she would have been more than 9 times over the limit!