G&T Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 Yahoo News By LIUDAS DAPKUS, Associated Press Writer Tue May 23, 8:42 AM ET VILNIUS, Lithuania - Lithuanian police were so astonished when they pulled over a truck driver and his breathalyzer test registered 18 times the legal alcohol limit, they thought their testing device must be broken. It wasn't. ADVERTISEMENT [0] Police said Tuesday 41-year-old Vidmantas Sungaila registered 7.27 grams per liter of alcohol in his blood repeatedly on different devices when he was pulled over for driving his truck down the center of a two-lane highway 60 miles from the capital, Vilnius on Saturday. Lithuania's legal limit is 0.4 grams per liter. "This guy should have been lying dead, but he was still driving. It must be an unofficial national record," Saulius Skvernelis, the director of the national police traffic control service, told the AP. "He was of high spirits and grinning the whole time he was questioned." Medical experts say anything above 3.5 grams per liter of alcohol in the blood is lethal for most people. "A person this intoxicated should be in an intensive care unit, not behind the wheel," said Tautvydas Zikaras, head of the dependence illness center in the country's second-largest city, Kaunas. Zikaras said he had never heard or read of someone being so drunk. Sungaila, who was slapped with a 3,000 litas ($1,110) fine and the loss of his license for up to three years, told police he had been drinking the night before and tried to freshen up by downing a pint of beer for breakfast. Lithuania has one of the worst road safety records in the European Union. Last year, 760 people died in traffic accidents in this country of 3.5 million residents. Most were alcohol-related WOW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxy Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 I think that calculation of BAC is different from ours. . .Is that right? Can anyone translate that BAC to an American equivilant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 QUOTE(Soxy @ May 23, 2006 -> 01:28 PM) I think that calculation of BAC is different from ours. . .Is that right? Can anyone translate that BAC to an American equivilant? I would guess it is about a 1.00 BAC, just based on the fact that they say .50 should be lethal, and they said it was double the usual lethal levels... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G&T Posted May 23, 2006 Author Share Posted May 23, 2006 (edited) You're right they are I will try to convert this by saying that a BAC here that is fatal is .45. This guy more than doubled it. Proportionally he would be at about a .93 That would mean 53 shots of 80 proof liquor over a 6 hour period for a 200 pound man. Since he had been drinking all night, over a 10 hour period it would be 55 shots. He may have been heavier but at 250 pounds over ten hours that's about 65 shots. My meathods are probably terrible but I think this is some severely heavy drinking. Edited May 24, 2006 by G&T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 A BAC of 0.20% means 1 gram of alcohol per in each 500 grams of an individual's blood. Because blood is mostly water, the density of blood is roughly 1 g/mL, just as water. That means a BAC of .2 is equivalent to 2 g alcohol per liter. A 7.27 g/L BAC would therefore be a BAC of about .73 in U.S. units, doing very rough conversions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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