Blood Alcohol Level

valoren

Not sure where else to ask this but would any one possibly have any idea what sort of blood alcohol level a man of 6ft would have after consuming a naggin (200ml) of Whiskey? Say if they started drinking it at 5pm and stopped at 10pm?

Reason I'm asking is that my dad was caught drink driving having drank a naggin and just wondering at what sort of conviction he is likely to face.

TheChizler

Nobody could tell you that with any sort of accuracy. Did he not get a printout from the Gardaí?

valoren

TheChizler wrote: »

Nobody could tell you that with any sort of accuracy. Did he not get a printout from the Gardaí?

Thanks for reply. He won't tell us anything or provide anything. Just trying to guesstimate if it would potentially be greater than 66 mcg of alcohol per 100 ml of breath based on consuming that quantity of alcohol.

That would be a disqualification of 3 years for a first time conviction and 6 years for a second. (Note: He was caught twice in the 80's, this wouldn't be a first time offence, would this still be in effect gong back over 3 decades?)

Zadkiel

When was he caught timewise versus when he stopped drinking?

As The Chizler mentioned there is no reliable way of telling.

200ml of spirits is 5.633 units of alcohol which would take roughly 6 hours to be absorbed from when alcohol consumption stopped.

valoren

Zadkiel wrote: »

When was he caught timewise versus when he stopped drinking?

As The Chizler mentioned there is no reliable way of telling.

200ml of spirits is 5.633 units of alcohol which would take roughly 6 hours to be absorbed from when alcohol consumption stopped.

At a guess started at 5pm and stopped at 9pm, breathalysed after 10pm or so, no idea what else was consumed in between. A bit of a blind alley all the same.

Needs Must

valoren wrote:

Reason I'm asking is that my dad was caught drink driving having drank a naggin and just wondering at what sort of conviction he is likely to face.

If he is convicted, he could be in bother.

seagull

A rough guide is that an average person will metabolise 1 unit per hour. Assuming it took him 30 minutes to consume the first unit, he would have metabolised around 4.5 units by the time he was tested. Given that he's consumed nearly 6 units, and the limit is about 1, that leaves him well over the limit, and could well be over 0.66. Given he already has 2 drink driving convictions, he's probably looking at a lengthy ban.

Melendez

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If you write in google: "alcohol level calculator", follow the first link and there it goes!

Claw Hammer

The height of the individual consuming the alcohol has no bearing on blood alcohol levels. The key factor is body weight. Other factors are how much sleep the person had and when and what they have eaten. There are tables produced in the US as it is a defence, in some areas, to show that the alcohol level was below the limit at the time of driving rather than at the time of testing.

Pat Mustard

Article containing factors affecting blood volume:
http://www.journalnow.com/archives/science---blood-volume-relates-to-height-weight-gender/article_2809b77a-cfa3-513b-9a5b-d5a9de54e58d.html