Drink Driving - Going to AA?

fits wrote:

He came up as zero, he had zero alcohol in his blood, he was fit to drive.....

actually no the alcohol was still in the blood just not on his breath hence why its a breath test not a blood test. , food, coffee, cigerattes etc even a breath mint can have and effect on that, hell even how hard of softly you breath into the machine or if you stop your breath fro a fraction have been known to cause problems with readings. but in teh actual blood stream? it can take days for the body to clear it out. i

fits wrote:

However because of previous incident, we werent sure whether he was under the limit.. The body metabolises alcohol at a different speed every time

it sure does and again depending on food content, fitness at teh time, age etc.

the point of teh tests in the morning are a good idea. ok there will be teh case of a person that goes out has 3 - 4 pints heads home gets 4-5 hours kip and gets behind teh wheel and is in fairness not drunk but will be stopped and found to possibly be over teh limit. and yes in this case it is unfair for them to be jailed. but look at teh other side of it for a second, what about the bloke that has 5-6 pints and no sleep and no food and gets in the car at 7 am? would it be sfe to say the deserver being arrested? that is the reason behind teh breath testing early in teh morning, not to catch someone coming out of slatterys on teh way to teh office who needs one to get through the day but to cathe teh people that went on a bender and who may or may not have managed to get some sleep and a shower but are in no condition to be behind the wheel. it is a proven fact that people can still be over the limit the next day and hence why there is a clamp down during these hours.

the fact that people may be over the limit at any time of day in any location is teh reasoning behind teh random breath tests. and to be honest i agree with it if it makes teh roads safer. that said I do believe if you are found to be over teh limit slightly the next day then possible blood tests etc to sho when teh alcohol was consumed should be used to clear said persons name.

I had a friend in Germany years ago that was out on the rip. few hours after drinking he'd had food etc and semed fine got behind the wheel and did something stupid, got pulled over but passed the breath test. but the cop was sure he had him DUI (probably coz od his attirude or the smell) so took him to the station. 3 more breath tests past, my mate was smoking so the cop in charge said the smoke is effecting the tests have a blood test. mate tried to say he was a morman so to take blood was against his religion, so the cops asked him if he paid his religious tax (yes in Germany you had to pay a portion of your imcome based on your religion) so he changed his mind about how devoted he was to the morman church strangley enough he lost the right to dive for 6 months. and also lost his job because he lived outside teh town he worked in and there was no transportation at all, he lived in a rural community. now if lets say he had failed the test on the morning after then maybe a blood test could have proved this and saved his license and his job. turns out he decided they even though being told he couldn't drive didn't actually mean not drive and he got done 5 months into the ban DUI again. lost his license permenantly. and rightly so.

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