.55% Blood Alcohol Level for woman passed out at Pizza Hut

Oregon woman charged with drunken driving tests .55 percent
By The Associated Press

OREGON CITY, Ore. — When they got Meagan Harper to the hospital, her blood alcohol level was .55 percent — about seven times greater than Oregon's legal limit for driving.:f-nutz:

"You just don't see numbers that high," said Dr. Mohamud Daya, an Oregon Health & Science University associate professor and emergency room physician.

At that level, some people are so drunk they stop breathing, he said.

Harper has drunken driving convictions in Washington and Multnomah counties and was convicted in Wasco County of operating a boat while intoxicated, said Ryan Chiotti, deputy district attorney in Clackamas County. He said she is on probation for driving under the influence and is awaiting trial on another drunken driving charge next month.

A Clackamas deputy found her passed out in a car at a pizza restaurant on Nov. 28.

She appeared in court Wednesday. Chiotti urged she be jailed, under high bail, as "an extraordinary danger to the community."

Judge Patrick Gilroy set her bail at $50,000 and told her to get help, "or you'll end up dead or taking someone with you."



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Based on the BAC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content) this makes 0.55g/liter ?
Record here is 9.75g (http://www.macadam-addict.fr/forum/post459589.html) !! :(

mom? you ok mom?

Well, if I recall my figures right, at roughly .40% MOST people would either be dead, or very likely be in a coma. To be at .55% and still driving, she must've had some uppers in there with the alcohol. Something EXTREMELY hard hitting, like lots and lots of white crosses.

For one of my clinical shifts in an ER (for my EMT-Basic License) we had a man come in with a .62%. He had to be tubed because he did stop breathing. He also smelled so bad that the nurses changed his orders to include a daily bath.