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Semi Driver Flips Propane Tank, Flees Scene While Intoxicated
KSL-TV, Salt Lake City ^ | 4/4/2007 | Whit Johnson

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: dumbass
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Way to go, sporto.


1 posted on 04/04/2007 5:02:47 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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.

2 posted on 04/04/2007 5:06:40 PM PDT by Huntress (I believe in government by grumpy old guys.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

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


3 posted on 04/04/2007 5:06:55 PM PDT by rjp2005 (Lord have mercy on us)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Just delivering propane and propane accessories with honor and dignity.

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4 posted on 04/04/2007 5:10:54 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Huntress

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.


5 posted on 04/04/2007 5:10:59 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Huntress

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.


6 posted on 04/04/2007 5:11:56 PM PDT by umgud (Anna Nicole was an expensive slut)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
UHP says Darrow was driving in the westbound lanes above the speed limit...

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

7 posted on 04/04/2007 5:12:31 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Will I be suspended again for this remark?)
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To: thackney

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


8 posted on 04/04/2007 5:12:36 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Sic semper tyrannis -- Your dinosaur is ill.)
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To: umgud

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


9 posted on 04/04/2007 5:12:50 PM PDT by umgud (Anna Nicole was an expensive slut)
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To: Huntress

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.


10 posted on 04/04/2007 5:13:01 PM PDT by Lost Dutchman (I thought WWI started because some bloke named Archie Duke shot an ostrich because he was hungry.)
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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.


11 posted on 04/04/2007 5:15:53 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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.

12 posted on 04/04/2007 5:16:22 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC (Go Gators! NCAA Football and Basketball Champions!)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
then knocked dirt and debree into the roadway

Editor wanted; inquire within.

13 posted on 04/04/2007 5:16:32 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: mamelukesabre

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


14 posted on 04/04/2007 5:17:17 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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I’d say the man has made some serious mistakes and is in mucho trouble.


15 posted on 04/04/2007 5:17:52 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charley the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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I have a feeling that the judge isn’t going to be a soft-sell on this one.


16 posted on 04/04/2007 5:20:50 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Sic semper tyrannis -- Your dinosaur is ill.)
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This

then knocked dirt and debree into the roadway

Then this

Editor wanted; inquire within.

Me

I think he was talking about decheese

17 posted on 04/04/2007 5:22:09 PM PDT by ThomasThomas ( _/|\_)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

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


18 posted on 04/04/2007 5:22:50 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charley the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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To: thackney

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


19 posted on 04/04/2007 5:30:05 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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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.


20 posted on 04/04/2007 5:30:29 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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