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: Criminal ReviewDrunk drivers getting drunker?
At least that seems to be the case in Nova Scotia:
Cpl. Joe Taplin, an RCMP spokesman, said officers are nabbing impaired drivers with much higher readings on breathalyzer tests than the legal limit of .08, or 80 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood ? whether at night or during the day.
“They’ve seen a norm of higher readings lately,” he said. “Usually, you get 110, 120 mg in 100 ml of blood. Now the readings are coming in around .150 to .220, .230, which is fairly high and fairly intoxicated individuals.”
On a Friday afternoon last month, a 41-year-old woman rear-ended a driver, then crashed her SUV into a ditch on Hammonds Plains Road in Halifax, while her two young sons were in the vehicle.
The SUV was damaged but no one was hurt.
The woman could only get into a police cruiser with the help of a firefighter and RCMP officer. At the RCMP detachment, she recorded a blood alcohol level between .330 and .340 ? four times the legal limit.
That’s pretty drunk. But still not up to Lithuanian standards.
Full post as published by Criminal Review on October 17, 2008 (boomark / email).
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