Posted on 04/04/2007 5:02:46 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
The driver of a semi flipped his load of propane gas last night near mile marker 172 in Summit County on Interstate 80 and that's only the beginning of the story for the driver of the big rig. He fled the scene and troopers say he was driving drunk.
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. Thirty-six-year-old Jason Darrow was seven times over the legal alcohol limit for drivers of commercial vehicles.
UHP says Darrow was driving in the westbound lanes above the speed limit and passing traffic when his trailer pup lost control and flipped off the back. Darrow continued driving and parked his truck at a nearby reststop. Troopers eventually found him walking along the onramp.
Sgt. Harley Watkins of the Utah Highway Patrol said, "You have hazardous materials, you have gas, propane, things like that--all have the potential of creating a significant impact on the environment as well as on human life out here. These guys are held to a higher standard and they need to abide by that."
Darrow failed a both a breath and a blood alcohol test. He will likely face at least three charges and he does have a criminal history. His employer, Turner Gas Company, did not return our calls.
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.
He handled Propane improperly? Hank Hill is gonna kick his -—.
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.
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.
Which, out that way, could be as high as 75!
So his BAC was 0.28%, which is pretty dang loaded!
ooops........ .04%
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.
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.
Nice spelling and editing job. Idiot journalists.
Editor wanted; inquire within.
Actually, that is the limit my company applies for working in our office.
I’d say the man has made some serious mistakes and is in mucho trouble.
I have a feeling that the judge isn’t going to be a soft-sell on this one.
then knocked dirt and debree into the roadway
Then this
Editor wanted; inquire within.
Me
I think he was talking about decheese
No, even great lawyering is unlikely to help him, and he’s unlikely to have even that.
Really! So you can sit at your desk and sip a beer?
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.
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