Would you drink a bottle of wine and drive the next day?

[HalfWayAroundTheLoop]

Sunday - one bottle of wine between 2pm and 5pm
Monday - driving at 8am

Hardly reckless.

Neither should be a problem after 15 hours. At least, not due to a bottle of wine consumed the previous afternoon.

Yes because there’s enough time in between. I wouldn’t finish the bottle at 2am and drive at 8am though.

Yes. 1 bottle of wine = 10 units.

One unit processed by the body per hour, pessimistically starting at 5pm, should be gone by 3am. Even if it took 1.5 hours, should still be fine by 8am.

In reality, processing would start at 2 and you'd definitely be alright by 8.

Thats still alot.

Nothing reckless about it- if it’s genuinely a 5.00 stop.

I am assuming that someone has said you shouldn’t OP?

I wouldn’t be worried about alcohol being in my system, but I’d have hangxiety about driving.

Yes from 5pm but wouldn’t from 11 say.

💯 (I drink but won’t even have one if I’m driving)
Someone told me one could drink a vodka or gin or whiskey an hour and still be ‘fit’ to drive if you’d done that for 12 hours.

If I’m drinking a bottle of wine and know I’m driving approx 8am the next day, 10pm is my cut off.

Absolutely, there's no way you would be over the limit or have any alcohol in your system, I wouldn't if drinking in the evening, would give myself 12 hours after finishing, so wouldn't if was drinking 6 to 9 pm

Not really. It's 4.3 medium glasses. So 41 minutes per glass over 3 hours

Yes

Yes, from the point of view of the alcohol being out of my system. No, from the point of view of having the back row of Riverdance hoofing on my skull. I don’t consider that to be an outlandish amount of alcohol but it would give me the hangover from hell these days.

I’d be too hungover to do anything if I drank a bottle of wine, I have zero tolerance for alcohol these days

Probably if I felt okay and had eaten. I’d be flat out if I drank a whole bottle these days in that short space of time though

Approx 11hrs from when you finish drinking the bottle of wine to when you'll likely be safe to drive.

"How the 'Morning After Calculator' works
The calculator allows one hour for each unit of alcohol, plus an additional hour for the first drink to allow for the alcohol to enter the bloodstream. It then rounds up the calculation to the nearest half hour.

The calculator bases its calculation from the time you stop, not when you start drinking. Some people say this is over-cautious, but we’d rather be safe than sorry.

The 'hours before driving' calculation is not based on any drink drive limit - it is the length of time when the alcohol in the drinks you've consumed is likely to have passed through your body. This is when we suggest you will be 'safe to drive'."

No not these days, not because the alcohol level but because I can’t function enough to drive after that much wine the night before

I wouldn't be able to get up, let alone drive!!

If I wasn't hung over, the alcohol would be gone, but you might feel pretty rotten particularly if you don't usually drink that much.

Yep.

Definitely not.

Yes, provided I wasn't hung over.

It takes 1 hour per unit for your liver to process alcohol. A bottle of wine (depending on the percentage) is 9-10 units (it will say exactly how many units on the back of the bottle). So drinking the next day after one bottle should be fine. You start counting from the time you start drinking.

It also takes 20 minutes for alcohol to reach your liver and for it to start processing.