Woman's blood alcohol content topples state records - http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news...
Dec 30, 2009
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"A Sturgis woman had a blood-alcohol level of .708 percent, possibly a state record, when she was found earlier this month behind the wheel of a stolen vehicle parked on Interstate 90, according to Meade County State’s Attorney Jesse Sondreal.
A South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper discovered Marguerite Engle, 45, on Dec. 1 passed out behind the wheel of a delivery truck reported stolen in Rapid City.
Her blood-alcohol level was almost nine times South Dakota’s legal limit of .08 percent.
Checks with local and state labs where blood-alcohol levels are tested suggest Engle’s reading may be the highest ever recorded in South Dakota, Sondreal said.
Sondreal said a state chemist recalled a sample that tested .53, but nothing higher, in his more than 30 years on the job.
Dr. Robert Looyenga, who recently retired from the Rapid City Police Department’s forensic laboratory, told Sondreal that the highest blood-alcohol sample he tested measured .56 percent.
Sondreal’s research indicates that a blood-alcohol level of .40 is considered a lethal dose for about 50 percent of the population."
- bob
smokes!!! don't light a match...
- Felicia Yue
Wow, almost double the LD50?!
- Paul Buchheit
That's my state! Drinking is what we do best.
- Daniel Dulitz
Phwoar.
- Andrew C (✔)
Rachel sees values above .5 all the time in the Seattle Harborview ER. It is amazing what the human body can adapt to. These people have enough alcohol on board to kill normal people and are still up and "walking".
- Joe Beda
What freaks me out is that these people will go into withdrawal and DTs at alcohol levels that are toxic to the average person.
- Victor Ganata
Wow she survived?
- Rodfather
Wow! What a hangover she must have had!
- Janie Masterson
Yikes!
- John (bird whisperer)
Rachel says the highest she has seen is .760 (5'1" woman who ended up getting tubed). She has seen .600+ up and walking. The Harborview record is .979. His blood was almost 1% alcohol -- 2 proof.
- Joe Beda
I wonder how long it would actually take to get that out of their system, particularly if their livers are already fried.
- Victor Ganata