Man’s Blood Alcohol Is 18 Times the Legal Limit
Lithuanian police thought their machinery was broken when a driver’s breath test registered 18 times the legal alcohol limit -- twice the amount considered fatal. It wasn’t.
Police said Vidmantas Sungaila registered 7.27 grams per liter of alcohol in his blood on different devices after he was pulled over 60 miles from the capital, Vilnius. Lithuania’s legal limit is 0.4 grams per liter. Medical experts say anything above 3.5 grams is lethal for most people.
“This guy should have been lying dead, but he was still driving. It must be an unofficial national record,” said Saulius Skvernelis, director of national police traffic control.
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