Drink Driving: ESSENTIAL INFORMATION

[Tigger]

3 pints of fosters = 6 units

It won't show in your blood until 20 mins after you have drunk em. (The breath test is a reading of alcohol in your blood) However the police ask you when you had your last drink and if you say just now they will keep you talking for 20 mins!!!

You can have up to 1 unit in your body naturally so you will have between 6 and 7 units in you.

You need to wait at least two hours for your body to absorb 2 of the units to pass the breath test. However you should be aware that you can be charged with 'drunk driving' (different from Driving with Excess Alcohol) even if you are below the limit if the copper thinks your pissed - a police doctor will then examine you and decide whether you are fit to drive. Penalties are just as bad.

At the end of the day bigtruck is right - it's never a good idea to drink and drive and I sure as hell won't be doing it again!

 

[Tigger]

or when they are splashin round in yer belly and therefore your breath is loaded with ale fumes coz of whats in your stomach?

The alchol on your breath has nothing to do with whats in your stomach. The alcohol in your blood is passed into your lungs just like the oxygen and carbon dioxide - it sits right at the bottom of your lungs which is why you need to blow so much and when measured gives the measurement of how much alcohol is in your blood.

 

[Biskit]

Dr. Tigger in da house

 

[dannster]

Ah it makes sense now - cheers tiggs for clearin that up - soz u had to learn the hard way m8. Nice one for the info.

 

[Tigger]

Aye - thanx to these last two weekends I now know more about drink driving than I ever wanted to. But the course was bloody useful at the end of the day and I reckon everyone should have to go on it b4 they even get a license!

 

[whatyadoinsucka]

it seems a very strange drink driving course this one

its basically advising how best to try and get off
to people who have drunk driven, well got done for it anyway




the main point is don't drink and drive
even if your not arrested and banned from driving just think if you hit or killed someone


its defo not worth it

 

[Tigger]

Tell me about it m8! I was expecting something very different!