let assume that you got very drunk the night before you blood alcohol content was 0.20% Assuming that the rate constant for alcohol degradation k = 0.015% depending on order of kinetics..how many hours would it take to be suitable for driving BAC is less than 0.08%?
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he body takes about an hour to process 29.5 ml of alcohol. Since every type of liquor has a different alcohol content, to be able to drive again without your reason and coordination being affected by it, you must wait for at least 90 minutes after a pint of beer and three hours after a large whisky or two glasses of wine.
If you’re busted driving with more than this limit, you can be booked for violating Section 185 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, and will have to pay a fine of ₹ 2,000 and/or face a six-month jail term.
If you are booked for a second violation within three years, you might have to pay up to ₹ 3,000 and/be jailed for two years.
Two years and ₹ 3,000? That’s it?
Well, in a bid to tighten the noose, the Union cabinet in 2012 approved toughening of penalties in the Motor Vehicles Act for very drunk drivers and for repeat offenders. The bill was passed by Rajya Sabha but lapsed before it could be voted on in Lok Sabha.
It proposed up to ₹ 10,000 in fine and four years in jail for repeated drunken driving with a BAC of over 150mg.
The law commission has also recommended stronger penalties, and the government is said to be close to finalizing new amendments to the Act that may include the provision of points docked on the licence for each offence, with the licence being suspended after it reaches a set number of points.
That’s a bit stiff. Now, I’m sure I won’t ever want to drink again after today, but unfortunately I am already five times the permissible limit and need to get home.
I would say, call an Uber or Ola cab, or jump into a black-and-yellow taxi or a rickshaw or something.
If I’m sober enough to ask you these questions, surely I’m sober enough to drive? I know a few back alleys the cops never check.
You do know that’s a bad idea: you’re endangering yourself and everyone else. At five times the limit, you’re much more likely to have an accident and kill someone.
I just got stopped by the cops... looks like they changed their checkpoints. Should I take the breathalyzer, then warm his palm with 500 bucks and drive away with dignity?
I can’t comment on whether that works where you live.
I could bribe him with 2,000 bucks?Or I could ask him whether he knows who my dad is?
You could end up being arrested.
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