Saturday, December 25, 2010

Drunk driver with 15 sheep and 6 people in his vehicle 32 times over alcohol limit

South African law enforcement officials caught a drunk motorist with a blood alcohol content 32 times over the legal limit near Queenstown in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday.

When the motorist, driving a Mercedes Benz Vito, was pulled over, he was breathalysed and found to have blood alcohol content of 1.6g/100ml. The legal limit is 0.05g/100ml.



Five boys and a woman, who were also in the vehicle with 15 sheep allegedly stolen from nearby farms, were also arrested.

From the beginning of December 2010 to the 21st of the month, 1.1 million vehicles and drivers have been checked. Some 1500 drunk drivers were arrested, 60 percent of which were male.

3 comments:

cath said...

1.6g/100ml... that's like, his blood was 1.6% alcohol! I can't believe he lived through that!

Anonymous said...

No way. 0.08 or 0.1 is the legal limit in most states. He'd be in a coma at .3 level.

Lurker111

Anonymous said...

Perhaps they have a different legal limit? Ever think of that?