Last night (July 9), callers reported to 911 that a vehicle was swerving dangerously along northbound I-5 in Federal Way. According to the report, witnesses said the driver had nearly crashed multiple times.
Troopers with the Washington State Patrol acted quickly and found the vehicle before disaster struck and arrested the driver for suspected impairment.
The Suspect Arrested was Four Times the Legal Limit
After the blood test, what police found was staggering. The driver’s blood alcohol content (BAC) was almost four times the legal limit. Those are levels of alcohol in the blood that could kill a normal person.
To put that in perspective, the Washington state legal BAC limit is 0.08%. Four times that would put a driver close to or above 0.32%, a level that isn’t just illegal but is dangerous to the point of being life-threatening. That level of intoxication causes basic motor functions like coordination, balance, and reaction time to be severely affected…