Thursday, April 19, 2007

Records are made to be broken

DUII driver blows a .47, new Washington state record

Posted by The Oregonian April 19, 2007 08:10AM


A Woodinville, Wash., woman arrested following two car crashes last week registered a .47 blood-alcohol content on a breath test - nearly six times the legal intoxication threshold and a state record, according to the Seattle Times.
Deana F. Jarrett, 54, was taken to Evergreen Hospital as a precaution following her arrest April 11, the Washington State Patrol said Wednesday. She was described as combative and held with soft restraints. No one was injured in the accidents.
"Someone who is an alcoholic will tolerate a higher blood-alcohol level," said Lynne Freeman, a doctor at Group Health's urgent-care clinic on Capitol Hill. "In someone who is not an alcoholic, they could die somewhere between 0.4 and 0.5."
For someone Jarrett's size -- 5 feet 5 inches and 130 to 140 pounds -- it would take about a fifth of liquor, 25.6 ounces, in a short period of time, to reach that blood-alcohol level, Freeman said.
"It would be many drinks," she said, and "probably straight alcohol rather than beer."
Of 356,000 breath tests administered since 1998 in Washington turned up only 35 above .40 - and none of those was higher than .45.

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