Drink driver: Woman blew nine times over limit at accident scene

[Express]

There was an article back in December 2015 about a woman on the Gold Coast who blew 0.48.

The article on the Gold Coast Woman: http://www.news.com.au/national/quee...3cd3335e4d0f43




Here is a woman from Coffs Harbour who is going for the record.

Drink driver: Woman blew nine times over limit at accident scene


7 March, 2016
The Daily Telegraph


A NSW woman has been charged with being nine times over the drink-drive limit after being breath-tested at the scene of a crash.

Police believe she has *recorded the highest blood-alcohol level of any motorist in the state’s history.

The 52-year-old woman was *injured when her Hyundai Veloster left the road and collided with a fence in Coffs Harbour.

Although the incident took place on Sawtell Rd in Boambee East in January, her exact blood alcohol level was not released by the police until now.

On Friday, official confirmation reached police that the alleged blood alcohol reading was 0.486.

Detective Inspector Darren Jameson of the Coffs Local Area Command said he believed the reading of 0.486 was the highest on record.

“Drink-driving is a very serious offence and not only risks the safety of the driver, but also all other road users,” he said.

The woman was issued a future court attendance *notice for high-range PCA, to appear at Coffs Harbour Local Court on May 2.

The woman’s licence has been seized.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new...aign=editorial

[Rodp]

0.48?! Geez, between 0.35 and 0.40 is considered a fatal dose. It's amazing she could function at all, let alone put herself behind the wheel of a car.

[Yellow_Festiva]

So, her blood itself contained more alcohol than straight Vodka?

Insane....

Heard on the radio that the machines to read this only go to .500!

Having said that, I wonder what her 2nd test read?

If she had been drinking and driving a quick swill just prior to the test could have shown an incorrectly high reading.

[buggo]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

So, her blood itself contained more alcohol than straight Vodka?

Insane....

Nah vodka would read at 37.0, where this lady is 0.48. It's still super high, but she'd need to drink 100x more than she did to get the walking vodka bottle levels

[Yellow_Festiva]

Originally Posted by buggo

Nah vodka would read at 37.0, where this lady is 0.48. It's still super high, but she'd need to drink 100x more than she did to get the walking vodka bottle levels

I think the decimal point position is playing up here.

If she is .48 isn't that 48%???? Much the same as .05 is 5% which is why a lady can have 1 beer or around 5% per hr to stay on / near .05.

1.0 would be 100%

So if vodka is 37% alcohol wouldn't it be .37??

Anyone can clarify / shed light on this???

[Yellow_Festiva]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

I think the decimal point position is playing up here.

If she is .48 isn't that 48%???? Much the same as .05 is 5% which is why a lady can have 1 beer or around 5% per hr to stay on / near .05.

1.0 would be 100%

So if vodka is 37% alcohol wouldn't it be .37??

Anyone can clarify / shed light on this???

http://alcoholrehab.com/alcoholism/b...entration-bac/

Blood Alcohol Concentration Explained

Blood alcohol concentration is a measurement of the percentage of alcohol in the blood stream. For example, if an individual has a BAC of 0.21 it means that the 21% of the fluid in their blood stream is alcohol. The higher the blood concentration level increases the more damaging it can be to the individual. The highest ever recorded BAC level was in Poland where tests showed that one man had reached 1.48. The average person will die at less than one third of this level.

I was right then???

I think that last bit about the bloke in Poland is a typo, should be .48 not 1.48.

[Spurious]

Scary potential fact: She's probably taken that same route, whilst drunk, many times before!

[Makovic]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

I think that last bit about the bloke in Poland is a typo, should be .48 not 1.48.

You've obviously never met a Pole.

[Tassie f100]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

I think the decimal point position is playing up here.

If she is .48 isn't that 48%???? Much the same as .05 is 5% which is why a lady can have 1 beer or around 5% per hr to stay on / near .05.

1.0 would be 100%

So if vodka is 37% alcohol wouldn't it be .37??

Anyone can clarify / shed light on this???

0.48% s just under 1/2% Vodka at 37% so her reading was about 1/80 the alcohol content of vodka

[mike_nofx]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

I think the decimal point position is playing up here.

If she is .48 isn't that 48%???? Much the same as .05 is 5% which is why a lady can have 1 beer or around 5% per hr to stay on / near .05.

1.0 would be 100%

So if vodka is 37% alcohol wouldn't it be .37??

Anyone can clarify / shed light on this???

No, thats incorrect.

0.48 IS the percentage. Her bloodstream was 0.48% pure alcohol, so therefore 99.52% blood (water, and whatever else makes up a bloodstream)

0.05 is not 5% its 0.05%.

If 37% vodka could be passed through a policemans breathalyser it'd read 37.00.

[last fairlane]

Re the second reading
one time I had a beer with the boss after work
I drank the stubbie of full strength beer then drove towards home
about 100 metres down the road I was pulled up and asked to blow in the bag
well I was told I was way over when asked if Id been drinking I said yes
Id had one beer with the boss and was told by the testing cop
that I had had about 6 beers I told him no way and its legal to drive with one beer in you so I asked him to test me again and he made me wait 15 minutes
and I blew in the bag again and he told me to Pi$$ off and dont do it again
so maybe she had 2 different readings
John

[FPV0137]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

So, her blood itself contained more alcohol than straight Vodka?

Insane....

Heard on the radio that the machines to read this only go to .500!

Having said that, I wonder what her 2nd test read?

If she had been drinking and driving a quick swill just prior to the test could have shown an incorrectly high reading.

Id assume that would be her second reading... She drove a Hyundai veloster through a fence! LOL

[Express]

Woman allegedly caught nine times the legal limit near Coffs Harbour


8 March, 2016


Matt O'Sullivan


See link below for video


Police believe a Coffs Harbour woman may have returned NSW's highest ever blood alcohol reading after she crashed into a fence last month.

A Coffs Harbour mother has allegedly returned the highest blood alcohol reading in the state's history – and possibly the country – after she crashed into a fence and was found unconscious last month.

Trudy Friend, 52, has been charged with an alleged blood alcohol reading of 0.486 - nearly nine times the legal limit.

Ms Friend was driving on Sawtell Road in Coffs Harbour at about 2.45pm on January 13 when her Hyundai Veloster veered to the left before mounting a curb and smashing into a fence, police say.



Trudy Friend was placed in an induced coma after the accident. Photo: Channel Nine


Inspector Joanne Reid, from Coffs Harbour Police, said the potential for "something catastrophic" to happen from the woman driving on a busy road with such a high alcohol reading had been "incredibly high".

"Based on our records, it's the highest ever recorded. I have been in the police for 22 years and I have never seen anything come close to that," she said on Tuesday.

"I have never seen anyone at 0.4. – even for a bloke [the alcohol reading was at the highest level].



Trudy Friend allegedly crashed into a fence. Photo: Channel Nine


"The fact that she only hit a fence is miraculous. Sawtell is a fairly busy road and connects to the Pacific Highway."

Emergency services had found the woman unconscious in the car when they arrived at the crash scene last month and she was taken to Coffs Harbour Hospital where she was placed in an induced coma.

Last Friday, police received confirmation Ms Friend had a blood alcohol content of 0.486. The woman's licence was seized and she has been issued with a licence suspension notice.

A blood alcohol concentration under 0.05 is the legal limit for most drivers in NSW.

However, the limit is under 0.02 for taxi or bus drivers while it is zero for learners and P-platers.

Police warn that alcohol affects people differently due to size and weight, gender, liver function and other factors such as a person's fitness or whether they are fatigued.

"The lesson is that ... if you plan to behind the wheel of a car, don't drink," Inspector Reid said.

Ms Friend will appear at Coffs Harbour Local Court on May 2.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/woman-caug...07-gnczbe.html

[Blue Shadow]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

So, her blood itself contained more alcohol than straight Vodka?

Insane....

Heard on the radio that the machines to read this only go to .500!

Having said that, I wonder what her 2nd test read?

If she had been drinking and driving a quick swill just prior to the test could have shown an incorrectly high reading.

They go to .99

[STINKY NINJA]

Only a true alcoholic could survive with a level that high...

[Yellow_Festiva]

Originally Posted by STINKY NINJA

Only a true alcoholic could survive with a level that high...

Yep... got a mate that could get you drunk by taking a whiff of his breath after a night on the grog!

[Lukeyson]

Most people around here drive like they have that much alcohol in their system.

I think the 0.486 means the person has 0.486grams of alcohol per 100ml of blood ?

[stig_3754]

Originally Posted by Lukeyson

Most people around here drive like they have that much alcohol in their system.

I think the 0.486 means the person has 0.486grams of alcohol per 100ml of blood ?

Correct

[Yellow_Festiva]

Originally Posted by Lukeyson

Most people around here drive like they have that much alcohol in their system.

I think the 0.486 means the person has 0.486grams of alcohol per 100ml of blood ?

Seems from my research on Wikipedia that is also correct....

Now I'm more confused

[Blue Shadow]

Originally Posted by Lukeyson

Most people around here drive like they have that much alcohol in their system.

I think the 0.486 means the person has 0.486grams of alcohol per 100ml of blood ?

Your right but it is in milligrams

[Russ]

I wonder if the Veloster looks any better now ??

[Bossxr8]

She must have been ****ed as high as that when she bought that Veloster

[Blue Shadow]

You shouldn't drink and drive, you might spill some

[XB GS 351 Coupe]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

http://alcoholrehab.com/alcoholism/b...entration-bac/

Haha who ever wrote that is a special sort of idiot that comes along very rarely, he/she has no idea, not even the faintest clue, if your blood contained 21% pure alcohol you would be dead a long time time ago.

Imagine 1/5th of your blood being pure alcohol

That would mean about a full litre or more of pure alcohol in your blood stream, or about 3 or 4 bottles of vodka 100% absorbed into your bloodstream

The prescribed concentration of alcohol is a concentration of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. So at a reading or 0.21 it would mean that the person has 0.21 grammes of alcohol (about 1/5th of a gram or a tiny drop) in 100 millilitres of blood, the fabled person in Poland had 1.48 grammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres.

It has nothing to do with percentages.

[chrisandsharon]

Crush what's left of the car, 2 years jail and ban her from ever holding a licence again......if she drives again she goes back inside for 5.........jails full?.......send em to a remote joint on the other side of the world to help out a humanitarian cause till their sentence is up. No respect for anyone's life, absolute scummy.

.......and wait for it......just like a bad Danoz direct 3am advert.......'but wait - I have an excuse'

-I was abused
-My parents were alcoholics
-I lost my dad/mum
Etc etc etc garbage

.......yep and the scum alco could have driven through a group of school kids or killed you or I. Drink drivers.....all the same....'I'll never get caught', 'I'll be right'...

[XB GS 351 Coupe]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Interesting story.

Says she was passed out in the car taken to hospital placed in a coma, yet blew 0.48 at the scene.

Do people usually blow into breathalyzers when unconscious?

Something strange going on and I think there's more to it.

Like when cops found a ****ed woman sleeping in the car then released a statement saying they don't understand how she was able to operate a car so intoxicated....umm she was sleeping!

Comprehension again, you are confusing two separate and unrelated incidents that occurred in different states involving different people.

There are no breathalysers at the scene they are back at the station, police only have a basic alcometer at the scene, people that are unconscious or injured get blood tested, not breathalysed.

The woman involved in the accident (NSW incident) was breath testes at the scene (which is not a legal reading only an indication of intoxication) and then actual results were obtained via a blood test at the hospital as police can't take an injured person from an accident back to the police station for breath analysis.

The woman who was passed out ((QLD incident) presumably found passed out behind the steering wheel of her car possibly passed out after driving, not sure as I was not there and the link does not mention the circumstances) got taken back to Hospital for a blood test as well as obviously she was unable to be breath tested.

[Stefan]

Read it again, the first story says says she blew 0.48 at the scene.

Updated story says they found her unconscious in the car and placed he in a coma. Where was she found? in the passenger seat? Was she driving? She did not blow in the breatho on the scene as the first story said she apparently did..

Next story will say she was the passenger, who knows what the truth is.

My reference to the other incident is merely to highlight that stories seem to get twisted by media and or cops to suit an agenda.

Looks like you are the one with comprehension issues.

[Brazen]

I'm going to be lynched for this. But I think it's the wrong thing to go too heavy on the punishment. She obviously has an alcohol problem and needs help.

I think someone who blows slightly over is worse because they know exactly what they are doing but decide to take a chance anyway of not getting caught. Someone 9 times over I doubt their brain was hardly functioning.

[Stefan]

Interesting story.

Says she was passed out in the car taken to hospital placed in a coma, yet blew 0.48 at the scene.

Do people usually blow into breathalyzers when unconscious?

Something strange going on and I think there's more to it.

Like when cops found a ****ed woman sleeping in the car then released a statement saying they don't understand how she was able to operate a car so intoxicated....umm she was sleeping!

[Peterwl]

Originally Posted by Brazen

I'm going to be lynched for this. But I think it's the wrong thing to go too heavy on the punishment. She obviously has an alcohol problem and needs help.

I think someone who blows slightly over is worse because they know exactly what they are doing but decide to take a chance anyway of not getting caught. Someone 9 times over I doubt their brain was hardly functioning.

Just a thought, will self driving cars that look like becoming main stream in the future allow people in this state to commute safely ??

They wont be driving !