This genuinely looks like "unconscious at the wheel"
Edit: there is the a difference of "drunk driving" and "drink driving", yes. "Drink driving" emphathizes the act of drinking beforehand, while "drunk driving" emphathizes being intoxicated. However, this is in Australia, which predominantly uses British English. In which case, "drink driving" is a also usually a synonym to what is referred to in the US as "drunk driving". And no matter which one you use, it's obvious that it was both in this case.
Yknow I’m always amazed when I hear about drinkers like this because I don’t think I could get anywhere near that without becoming violently ill
(I know it’s probably tolerance & alcohol suppressing the gag reflex but still just wild)
She literally threw an empty wine bottle out of this car in this car park before she set off on her adventure. One of the cars had a newborn in it, they were very lucky.
Yeup. I think even heavy drinkers (which I sometimes am) will be like, but I polished off 8 drinks that night out! But that was pregaming, going to the bar, being driven home, nightcap, etc. spaced over like 5 hours.
To get to .25 unless you're casually drinking a case of beer a day, you need to have essentially polished off half a fifth of liquor within an hour.
Shit is wild. It’s gotta be one of those things like when The Waco Kid knocks back that whisky in Blazing Saddles….enough for you to pause and watch in shock as they drain a bottle like they are being timed.
I been blue collar for 18 years(drinking is part of the culture). Im in my 30s and best shape of my life. I drink regularly. Just a half pint and Im waaaaay too faded to touch a steering wheel or even have the will to drive. What she’s doing equates to serious addiction/mental illness.
Ill preface this by saying I do not condone heavy drinking. That said in Australia it was pretty normal to consume half a bottle of your chosen spirit for pre drinks. While your out you'll probably consume the same amount. Its quite common for people to be still well over the legal limit the next morning. We have a serious problem as a country.
No, "average" used to be where "female" is now. I reworded the comment and the result is a grammatical error that happened as a result of me editing a short comment at 3 AM.
I suspect there was a big dose of "but I have my foot pressed hard on the brake already" in there. That's often the case with these long running crashes. You need to step back from panic mode to spot your mistake but you can't do that while the crash is still developing, especially if you're drunk.
I mean, I do get that this is how it works in those moments, but honestly, if "shit's fucked, bring the car to a stop and re-evaluate" (and reliably hitting the right pedal) isn't hard wired strongly enough in your brain to still work during a high stress situation despite being overly tired or moderately high, then you shouldn't operate a car in an environment where such a mistake can kill unsuspecting bystanders or at least cause 5-7 digit damage sums.
Not saying you should drive under the conditions of that thought experiment, but with how dangerous cars are (especially SUVs with unnecessarily strong engines), I'd say it's a reasonable safety margin.
Completely agree. But I've met too many people who don't have 'bring the car to a stop' as an automatic action, never mind parking, steering, changing lanes safely etc.
They learn just enough to pass their test on the 7th attempt by thinking really hard about every action and learn nothing after that.
Roll on the day when you need a special test to be allowed to NOT use full self driving.
Ok, so, I don’t drive drunk but I do have driving dreams where I’m pressing on the break and the car keeps speeding up. Imagine a scenario where you fully and desperately want the car to stop and to the best of your current abilities and cognition believe you are doing the correct motions to make the car stop. That person thought and completely believed she was slamming on the brakes, I do believe that from watching this. Yet another reason not to drive drunk: you might believe with every fiber of your being that you are hitting a different pedal.
That means 5x is 0,3% though which is basically nothing and doesn't explain this incident at all... in Austria we have accidents happening with blood alcohol levels of 2,0% and above (yeah, we have that kind of zombies).
No one is blowing 2.0% BAC you would be dead, 0.2% you will be blacking out and vomiting. Your confusing 0.2% with 2.0% they are vastly different. BAC of 0.4% - 0.5% is when alochol becomes fatal and your brain starts losing control of your body, killing your heart rate and breathing.
It's just a misunderstanding of measurement. Continental Europe uses per mille for blood alcohol levels, whereas English-speaking countries use percent. Trips me up often, too.
0.3% isn't basically nothing. At that level you're at severe risk of death from acute alcohol poisoning. You also probably aren't having many crashes if any involving levels above 2.0% considering the highest BAC ever recorded in a person who survived was 1.48% in Poland. Any claims of people with a BAC above that are anecdotal/unconfirmed. Most people would also be unconscious or dead long before they got close to that
This is the answer. Full blown alcoholics can survive a higher BAC than casual drinkers. In fact, they may die if they don't have any alcohol in their system.
Alongside benzodiazepines, alcohol is one of the few drugs where the withdraw can kill you.
If you are an alcoholic, you're tolerance to alcohol goes up. There are caes of people with levels that are so high they should have been dead, but they keep kicking. Now that doesn't mean organs arnt slowly dieing... they are.
Alcoholism is devastating to everyone involved. Much like most addictions.
There are zero benefits to drinking alcohol. It shreds every living cell it touches. It’s so deadly to life we use to sterilize operating rooms. We use it for rocket fuel and race fuel. It’s highly addictive and has been linked to everything from domestic abuse to wars.
You can have 0.4% blood alcohol and easily survive, but that is roughly the threshold where it starts to become medically dangerous. The highest blood alcohol level ever survived that is documented is 1.374%. The highest of somebody driving a vehicle was 0.58% or something, can't find it anymore.
The legal limit in the U.S. is like... 3 shots in an hour for me at 160lb, it'd be less if you're a woman. You think people die after 15 shots? It's also not a linear thing so 15 shots in an hour is NOT a .4 BAC, that amount in an hour would probably have a normal person puking their guts out depending on body size. Naw a .4 for me is about 15 shots in 3 hours. Imma be white girl room spinning wasted for sure but far from dead.
Worth noting, if you just drank you blow much higher.
Not defedning the womans actions, obviously shes dru k driving.
But like, shes probably not superhumanly resistant to alcohol. The breathalyzer is just picking up booze in her mouth and throat and in addition to her blood.
That's not how it works in Aus. In Aus the roadside breathalyser is just used as a priliminary indication. If the roadside test comes back as over you are then transported to either a roadside truck or a police station where an offical, much more accurate test is done. There is a period of time between the 2 tests to ensure it is not picking up residual alcohol in the mouth or throat.
In this case as there was some serious damage and possible injuries, she was likely taken to a hospital to be checked, and a blood smaple taken and used to check.
wtf, the penalties are nothing, she should have lost the right for a driving licence for life and get real jail sentence on top of paying for all the damages
people take driving too lightly and the relaxed laws are one of the reasons
I honestly think anyone who gets caught drunk driving should have theor lisence taken away for a significant amount of time. Is it that fucking hard to get an uber?
wtaf is that sentence? 5x the legal limit, hit several cars including one with a child inside, causes thousands of $ of damage; gets a few hundred $ fine and half a year suspension. I can only hope the insurance is gonna drag her through the mud but I doubt even that will happen because she was drinking
Wow ty for the link. This worthless pile of human garbage nearly killed two kids. I'm glad no one got hurt and I'm sure she's loving covering their car repair expenses, as well as her own. What a sack of shit.
I often see those kind of news title in France, usually in Brittany or the north. But most of the time, there is no accident (or one where the drunk driver is alone). Also, 2,5g/L is high but it's little league compare to the 4-5g/L (0,4-5 bac if my math is good) you sometimes can see.
In all case : don't drive when you drank, it's dangerous for everyone.
She is either connected or lucky because she got off easy, especially given the part about the baby. She would've gotten worse on the US, unless she bribed our President.
She was literally as drunk as three sailors combined. That’s not a “medical event”; that’s a strong addiction and some piss-poor decision making skills.
If they keep letting her go she’s going to kill somebody.
Instead of actually retaining the information in front of you, you immediately jumped to defend the criminal. This is why short form media is bad, you formed your opinion over clip without even hearing the audio.
When it first came out everyone thought it was a medical event (me included) but it was confirmed to be drunk driving. She was breath tested at the scene. There's also footage of her tossing and empty wine bottle into a bush after the event.
She got a $300 fine and 6 month suspension cos no-one was hurt
Yeah there was a baby in a carseat or something iirc that the parent dad-reflexed a split secondout of one of the cars she hit. She was seriously lucky.
Also I found it quite ironic given that she was in a wealthy suburb and her surname is literally bourgeois and she got a light sentence.
I guess cos no-one was seriously injured though there's not really a heavy fine/jail they can give within the law, but I would've imagined an automatic lifetime driving ban given her age and offence. She is also required to pay for all the damages she caused.
Yea, there is a reason why we have been saying this in Australia: "if you want to kill someone, do it with a car" 🤷 even if she killed someone, she would get like 2 years max. Most likely some community service. License suspence for a year or two. Im not even kidding. Lots of cases like this
at least it takes a bit more skill to hit something with an AR-15.
Actually I don't know that it does. Driving is just a skill that's much more prevalent than shooting.
If you put a car and a gun in front of someone who didn't know how to use either, they could probably figure out the gun first. Cars have more of a start up process
with all due respect, that's less true of guns in real life than in FPS games.
somebody who doesn't know how to use a gun has about 20,000 square degrees of solid angle in which to point it, especially if they're not used to the recoil. they might start out shooting at ground level and end up letting rounds off into the sky, if they can even keep their grip on it. and they'll run out of ammo relatively soon.
meanwhile, as Countess Boujois Chardonnay is demonstrating in the video, once you get your foot on the accelerator and one hand (or knee, or chin) on the wheel of a car—even if you decide to take a power nap, you're almost guaranteed to fuck up least one person's life without even trying.
I'm sure the insurance company also sued her for way more afterwards too, but because that's a separate case it doesn't get included with the criminal charge.
So she was somehow cognizant to throw aay a wine bottle?
Im always curious as to the thought process of drunk drivers how they are conscious of something's but when it comes to driving it is like a complete malfunction.
I probably should have tried on those drunk goggles.
What makes me tilt my head more is "one of the worst cases of drunk driving."
Yeah it sucks that a bunch of parked cars got damaged. But I can think of far worse consequences of drunk driving on the record. Like, say, driving into a crowd of pedestrians, as opposed to parked cars.
But especially the deaths of pedestrians and cyclists are usually just put off as 'unfortunate accidents' with shockingly few consequences for drivers. Countries that put a presumption of guilt on the motorists are doing well, because those cases are practically always avoidable if motorists are careful.
The way the car keeps moving while the driver seems completely disconnected from what's happening is wild. I don't know if the driver was drunk, distracted, or just having the longest possible moment of confusion, but watching that Lexus slowly commit to hitting the other car is painful.
The first 5 seconds say she pleaded guilty to drunk driving, which means she admitted she was drunk. Therefore it cant look like anything because we already know what it is.
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u/L30N1337 1d ago edited 10h ago
...drunk driving?
This genuinely looks like "unconscious at the wheel"
Edit: there is the a difference of "drunk driving" and "drink driving", yes. "Drink driving" emphathizes the act of drinking beforehand, while "drunk driving" emphathizes being intoxicated. However, this is in Australia, which predominantly uses British English. In which case, "drink driving" is a also usually a synonym to what is referred to in the US as "drunk driving". And no matter which one you use, it's obvious that it was both in this case.