If you drank this much alcohol... would you drive tomorrow?

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16.4 units (lager)... starting 1pm finishing probably 7pm. Driving tomorrow 11am...

You can buy home breathalyser kit, maybe you should get one

That’s a massive binge. I would be comatose after that. The fact you have such a high tolerance doesn’t mean you can drive after that. It means you need to reevaluate your relationship with booze.

Isn't it that you roughly process around 1 unit per hour? So if you wait 16 hours after stopping likely to be OK...

Not always - I barely drink. Often go a year with no alcohol
But then if I go out I can have two bottles of wine and several cocktails/g&t plus shots
I've always had a high alcohol tolerance. One bottle of wine doesn't do anything really to me

That’s a huge amount of alcohol, no way would I be driving the day after that.

Depends far yi bide - the limit in Scotland is an affa lot less than England.

I wouldn't drive for 24 hours at least after that amount of alcohol. If I have to drive the next day I limit alcohol to max 3 drinks.

It's just not worth the risk.

But to be honest, if I had 16 units of alcohol I wouldn't feel able for driving, or getting out of best.

I’d buy an alcohol test and check before driving.

You’re supposed to leave an hour per unit from when you stop drinking, which would take you to exactly 11... so tbh, no, I’d not plan to be driving then.

I’d happily turn my car round on my drive or something, but I’d leave it longer than that to drive anywhere.

Yes I'm well aware of that thanks, but if we could all stop being Judge Judy's and just stick to the question asked. Don't worry I'll start another thread on my relationship with alcohol so you can all start a pile on 👍

What time did you start? What time did you finish? What time/how many hours later will you drive?

Ignore me. Its in the first post! 😂😂😂

I’d be fine OP

Swop in a pint of water/lemonade/whatever mid afternoon.

Wow is 6 pints over a whole afternoon and part evening really that bad? yes it’s binge drinking you are drinking more than the weekly allowance in a few hours. That’s not normal for anyone other than a very young adult/student or an alcoholic.

How are you on your first pint and planning how many you'll drink already?
Realistically if you're asking the question you know the answer.

I've found this whixh is helpful.

It takes one hour for each unit of alcohol to leave your body - this means if you had eight pints of ordinary strength beer and stopped drinking at midnight, all of the alcohol would not be dispelled from you body (and you would not be safe to drive) until about 4 pm the following day.

I had at least 6 pints of cider last night, so no judgement here. MN is weird about food and drink as to who has the least....

I'm not getting in the car today though, as I'm not certain about the numbers of drinks so it's safer just to not get behind the wheel.

Also, the one unit per hour leaving the body is the time calculated from when you STOPPED drinking, not started.

So 14. 5ish hours after you finish your last pint it should be gone (from most people's systems).

Food and water makes no difference to it being metabolised, just affects how you feel.

I've always counted each pint as 3 hours, plus add an additional hour at the start for time for the first drink to act. I'm very cautious about driving after a night on the booze. I usually avoid if I can or at least wait until lunch time.

6 pints, you should be ok if you do indeed quit at 7

Well, you'd quite possibly be sober (1pm plus 17 hours is 7am so that's another quarter over average) but I'd have a stonking hangover and would be cautious about being a passenger, never mind concentrating on the drive.

6 pints across a whole day, with food, is nothing for many men!

Are you more concerned about getting a fine and points for being over the drink drive limit or actually the possibility of injuring or killing someone because your reactions were not quick enough?

As someone who was injured by a stupid driver who still thinks they weren’t in the wrong despite being prosecuted and banned from driving, please don’t take unnecessary risks with other people’s lives. ☹️

1 hour per unit plus 1 hour from the first drink.

That's based on a 72kg male with average alcohol metabolism.

I'm dehydrogenase deficient so I wouldn't be able to drink that amount, and If I did would take far longer to metabolise the alcohol.

Based on your lightweight female measurements and a 22 hour time gap from the first drink, it would still be pretty marginal for an average person. If that amount of drinking is regular, then the time required is obviously less. If this is a literal one off, it may be significantly longer required.