Sounds though like he was a good guy, well respected and loved. RIP.
Almost four times the legal limit going over 60 on a dirt road and not buckled in. Genius.
the “legal limit” is either 0.5 mg or 1.0, depending on where you live.
An average sized guy gets 0.5 from one recent drink.
So he had a couple.
A lot of guys doing this are under emotional distress: they are in despair, have a few drinks, and start racing the car to let off steam, then they either aim at a tree to kill themselves under an impulse, or more commonly, lose control and hit a tree.
Prayers for him and his family.
After about 50mph seat belts won’t do you any good. They’ll only hold you in place for the EMT’s to find you.
The most shocking item in the autopsy report is Dever's blood alcohol content (BAC), reported to be an astounding 0.291 percent.
Based on the results of a Virginia Tech study on the effects of alcohol consumption, in order to achieve a BAC of 0.291, Dever who weighed close to 175 pounds, would have needed to consume about 12 (12 0z.) beers or 12 (1.5 oz) shots of 80 proof liquor in a relatively short period of time.
Given the fact that Dever had been in law enforcement for 30 years and had worked numerous traffic accidents where alcohol had been a factor, the notion that this very highly respected sheriff sat behind the wheel of a vehicle downing drinks, one-behind the other, seems a bit implausible.
This reporter also spoke with a close associate and friend of Dever's, who claimed on condition of anonymity that in all the years that the two had been friends, he had never seen the sheriff consume more`than two drinks in an evening.
If most of us had to live on that border and try to fight the feds to protect our citizens, we’d all have alcohol in our systems 24/7!