Semi Driver Flips Propane Tank, Flees Scene While Intoxicated

KSL-TV, Salt Lake City ^ | 4/4/2007 | Whit Johnson

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Way to go, sporto.

[Huntress]

Thirty-six-year-old Jason Darrow was seven times over the legal alcohol limit for drivers of commercial vehicles.

This isn't a particularly useful fact when the reporter doesn't tell us what the legal limit is in this case. I doubt that it's 0.08. It's probably considerably lower.

[rjp2005]

He handled Propane improperly? Hank Hill is gonna kick his -—.

[digger48]

Just delivering propane and propane accessories with honor and dignity.

[thackney]

DUI Law Utah
http://www.dui-help.com/dui-utah.html

The legal limit is 0.04% or 40 mg/dL for commercial truck drivers.

[umgud]

0.02% is the limit for haz-mat drivers. Of course, this idiot will now be refered to as a former driver, as the punishment is far greater for commercial and haz-mat drivers.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

UHP says Darrow was driving in the westbound lanes above the speed limit...

Which, out that way, could be as high as 75!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

So his BAC was 0.28%, which is pretty dang loaded!

[umgud]

ooops........ .04%

[Lost Dutchman]

IIRC, it is .04 and if he was over 7 times that he may have been driving during a ‘black out’.

But I doubt it since he tried to run away. If he could function that coherently at that level of intoxication he must have built up one heck of a tolerence.

[mamelukesabre]

Wow. I’m surprised they even have a limit. I woulda guessed it was zero tollerance. After all, this is their job and they are on the clock. No one else is allowed to show up for work buzzed.

[CFC__VRWC]

Troopers say it's amazing that there was no leak of any kind. The propane trailer pup flipped onto the median then knocked dirt and debree into the roadway of oncoming traffic.

Nice spelling and editing job. Idiot journalists.

[Izzy Dunne]

then knocked dirt and debree into the roadway

Editor wanted; inquire within.

[thackney]

Actually, that is the limit my company applies for working in our office.

[California Patriot]

I’d say the man has made some serious mistakes and is in mucho trouble.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I have a feeling that the judge isn’t going to be a soft-sell on this one.

[ThomasThomas]

This

then knocked dirt and debree into the roadway

Then this

Editor wanted; inquire within.

Me

I think he was talking about decheese

[California Patriot]

No, even great lawyering is unlikely to help him, and he’s unlikely to have even that.

[mamelukesabre]

Really! So you can sit at your desk and sip a beer?

[Fred Hayek]

I think the 0.04% has been the standard set by US DOT for any commercial transportation. Other cases are more stringent. I have heard that some parts of the North Slope (Alaska) have effectively zero tolerance on alcohol.