State Police Fatal Accident Unit Releases Findings on Drag Strip Crash that Claimed L

Rob Petrie E395 · 10-09-2008, 02:47 PM

when this all came out a couple of weeks ago on dragracing online I asked my sister in law about this. She works for the state of Virginia crime lab and regularlly testifies in both drug and alcohol DUI cases. Basiclly what I understand now is if we have alcohol in our bodies when we die it turns into a ethanol type substance and by doing blood work and calculating the amounts of it in your blood they can determine how much you may have had to drink or what your blood alchol level might have been at the time of death. She went on to say as a example that if a cdl licened person such as myself were to go out and drink heavily the night before work and get in a truck wreck early the next morning it is likely I would show this kind of stuff in my system and If I survived the accident I would lose my cdl license in most states. My understanding is that while you may not appear or act drunk all of the effects even the next day are not completely out of your system. She tried to go on about a bunch of other stuff relating to how the body breaks down alcohol but to be honest alot of it was scientific crap that was way over my head and I would have trouble explaining it or I would.

10-09-2008, 02:47 PM	#16
Rob Petrie E395 VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Woodlawn IL Posts: 1,092 Likes: 162 Liked 216 Times in 77 Posts	Re: State Police Fatal Accident Unit Releases Findings on Drag Strip Crash that Claim when this all came out a couple of weeks ago on dragracing online I asked my sister in law about this. She works for the state of Virginia crime lab and regularlly testifies in both drug and alcohol DUI cases. Basiclly what I understand now is if we have alcohol in our bodies when we die it turns into a ethanol type substance and by doing blood work and calculating the amounts of it in your blood they can determine how much you may have had to drink or what your blood alchol level might have been at the time of death. She went on to say as a example that if a cdl licened person such as myself were to go out and drink heavily the night before work and get in a truck wreck early the next morning it is likely I would show this kind of stuff in my system and If I survived the accident I would lose my cdl license in most states. My understanding is that while you may not appear or act drunk all of the effects even the next day are not completely out of your system. She tried to go on about a bunch of other stuff relating to how the body breaks down alcohol but to be honest alot of it was scientific crap that was way over my head and I would have trouble explaining it or I would.