BRISBANE man is a candidate for the dubious distinction of recording the highest blood-alcohol reading in Queensland since the late 1980s, and one of the highest ever detected in Australia.
The 48-year-old is due to face court next month, charged with driving under the influence after he allegedly returned a staggering reading of 0.422 – more than eight times the legal limit of 0.05.
The alleged reading is the highest detected in Queensland since 1989, when a man at Ayr in the state's north was found driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.49.
Such a reading – which, according to medical evidence presented in previous drink-driving cases, should render anyone unconscious, if not dead – also would come close to national records detected by police during the 1990s.
A South Australian man recorded a blood-alcohol level of 0.497 when he was breath-tested in that state's southeast in 1998.
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