Queensland driver blows eight-times legal alcohol limit in police stop at 0.395
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Crazy Moment: Driver exceeds EIGHT times the legal alcohol limit, leaving cops stunned: ‘Wow!’
- A Queensland driver surprised police by blowing eight times over the legal limit
- Police stopped the man because he exhibited “reckless driving”
- The state government has launched a new campaign to reduce drink driving
- A survey found that many exaggerated how much they could drink and be okay to drive
Police officers were stunned when a driver took a breath test nearly eight times over the legal alcohol limit.
Queensland officers stopped the ‘reckless’ driver during the mid-afternoon traffic rush when school pickups were underway.
Body camera footage shows an officer pounding on the door of the silver van demanding the man behind the wheel to get out and hand over the keys.
The motorist then gave a reading of 0.395, causing a male officer to simply exclaim, ‘wow!’
The legal limit in Australia is 0.05 for blood alcohol concentration.
“That’s the highest I’ve ever been,” an officer tells her partner in disbelief, the couple walking away.
Police officers were stunned when a driver took a breath test nearly eight times over the legal alcohol limit.
Queensland Police Superintendent Christopher Stream condemned the reckless act as “really irresponsible and really selfish”.
The extraordinary breath test result follows a disturbing survey published by Queensland motoring group RACQ, which found many people overestimated the amount of alcohol they could consume and stayed below the legal limit.
“Ten percent of motorists thought they could have two standard drinks every hour after the first hour, which as we all know is complete rubbish,” said RACQ spokesman Joshua Cow.
The recommended rule is that after consuming only two standard drinks in the first hour, you can only consume one standard drink for each hour thereafter to stay under the limit.
The survey also found that more than one in 10 motorists admitted to getting behind the wheel when they thought they might be over the legal limit.
A new state government ‘Drink? The Never Drive campaign will seek to remind motorists to be careful with their alcohol consumption over the festive period.
Queensland officers stopped the ‘reckless’ driver during the mid-afternoon traffic rush when school pickups were underway.
Officers walked away from the breath test scene in disbelief at the incredible reading
‘Is that extra beer really worth the kind of consequences I might have to live with for the rest of my life?’ Queensland Transport Minister Mark Bailey asked at the launch of the campaign.
“Choosing to drink and drive not only puts you at risk, but everyone around you.
“Tragically, in the first six months of this year, we lost 37 lives in Queensland to drink driving, which equates to one in four lives lost on our roads.
‘This is substantially higher than the previous five-year average.
‘It’s just not good enough.’
Advertising and promotion will be backed by an increased police presence on the roads.