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

I'd be more worried about feeling shit driving in the morning than limits. I wouldn't drink a bottle later in the evening if driving in the morning both from feeling shit and possibly being over the limit

Think some people see just being under the limit as a target

The thing is the alcohol will be out of your system by that time and that is very much down to elimination rates. Whether or not you feel well enough to drive depends on tolerance which will take in to consideration body weight and height, age and if you are used to drinking a bottle of wine or not. If you feel rough the next day then probably best not to drive. I used to be able to drink a bottle of wine no problem and as long as I re hydrated felt fine the next morning. Now I'm in to my 40s that bottle of wine feels very different the next morning.

I would feel like shit the next day but legally able to drive. I wouldn't though.

Glad to read of your decision OP.

I don't drink wine (don't like the taste much and it does not like me), and no alcohol at all before teatime, so the question was academic for me.

You are confusing science and law with morality.

The science says alcohol is processed at X rate. This is the only thing that can be measured legally

Morally, no one should drive if they feel shit. But that also means tiredness, a cold, had a rubbish day at work and distracted. Even just having children in the car is a massive distraction and can reduce reaction times. But all that can't be measured legally.

Hence the answer that its legal to drive... but you might not feel well enough to drive.

But after 15 hours there would be zero alcohol in the bloodstream. Posters on this thread are being ridiculous.

It is irrelevant now as OP chose not to drink the wine but I do think that some posters exist in la la land on here!
Being able to drink a bottle of wine in one sitting over a few hours doesn't make someone a raging alcoholic ffs, if they are doing it every day it might be a problem but now and again is just a relaxing Sunday afternoon 🤷‍♀️
Of course I would have driven the next day and regularly do - because there is no chuffing alcohol in my system and I feel absolutely fine!

Seems an odd question given that at the time of posting you presumably hadn't yet drunk the wine. Unless you were talking about last Sunday.

If you're concerned why not just drink less or stop drinking earlier?

Look at the units on the bottle, if the units are less than the number of hours plus 20% margin at least you are ok. Most wine bottles are about 10 units so 15 hours from last drink is unit per hour plus 50%.

personally though I can’t drink a whole bottle, half is plenty

1 bottle of wine I would but anything more I use this https://morning-after.org.uk/drink-drive-calculator/ and then add on a couple of hours just to be on the safe side!!

There would be no alcohol in OP’s bloodstream by the following morning. You do understand that?

Also the limit is blood or breath alcohol measurement which is different for everyone and do not measured in units.

If I drank an entire bottle of wine in one sitting I would be vomiting my guts up.

Do you think there would still be any alcohol at all in the OP’s system at around 8am the next day? The only way your post makes sense is if you do.

For your reference, it takes about 1 hour for your body to process 1 unit of alcohol. A typical bottle of wine contains 9-10 units, lets say 10 to be on the safe side and lets also pretend rather than drinking steadily from 2pm until 5pm, the OP downed all 10 units at 5pm. In that case, she’d have processed it all by 3am. Another 5 hours before driving if she went at 8am, she’d definitely have no alcohol in her system.

But she might be tired. Being tired is the bigger risk, lots of women can’t sleep after drinking a large amount. I’ve no idea if the OP is one of them.

Sorry to answer your question OP- yes I would. But only if I’d had a decent nights sleep.

Absolutely not.

To be honest I wouldn’t expect to have been released from the hospital by 8am the next morning following the alcohol poisoning I’d get from drinking an ENTIRE BOTTLE of wine to myself.

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Are you taking the piss?

Would 3 pints of beer give you alcohol poisoning as well? Same amount of alcohol...

The hyperbole from some posters is outstanding

Mn. At its best. Hospitalised for alcohol poisoning from 1 bottle of wine. 🤣🤣

This thread is nuts

😂

I've just had a bottle of cremant. Clearly I'm an absolute pisshead

Yes,. this would be a regular Sunday for me. Bottle of wine while cooking and eating dinner. I'd be finished by 6pm and I wouldn't think twice about driving to work the next day.