Near Darmstadt (Germany), a driver drove through an industrial area with an alcohol level of almost five per mille. A witness alerted the police because the driving style of the 37-year-old seemed strange to him.
The police stopped the car a short time later on the A5 near Griesheim. The 37-year-old was driving her Kia unsafely in an industrial area near Darmstadt. She agreed to a breath alcohol test, which showed a high alcohol level of 4.85 per mille. The officers ordered a blood sample and obtained the driver’s license. The woman is being reported.
Danger to life from 4 per mille
According to addiction medicine, such extreme values are usually only reached by heavy alcoholics. For other people, only two to three per mille alcohol in the blood is enough to cause serious symptoms of poisoning and loss of consciousness. According to the German Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA), there is a risk to life if the blood alcohol level is higher than four per mille. For example, paralysis and respiratory arrest can occur.
Anyone driving with a blood alcohol level of more than 1.1 per mille is committing a criminal offence in Germany, as the threshold of “absolute inability to drive” is considered to have been exceeded. From 0.5 per mille, your driving licence can be withdrawn. In Austria, the upper limit is also 0.5 per mille.
Source: Krone
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