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Bulgarian's blood-alcohol level astounds doctors
Last Updated:
Tuesday, January 4, 2005 | 3:07 PM ET
CBC News
Bulgarian doctors
tested a man's blood-alcohol level five times before accepting it was
0.914 – nearly twice the amount considered to be life-threatening. The
67-year-old man landed in hospital on Dec. 20 after a car knocked him
off his feet in the southern Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, police and
doctors said Tuesday.
A breath test indicated blood-alcohol
levels so high that police thought their equipment was broken, because
the man remained conscious and talked with them.
The head of
Plovdiv police, Col. Angel Rangelov, said five separate lab tests taken
the same day confirmed the man's blood-alcohol level of 0.914.
A blood-alcohol level of 0.55 is considered potentially fatal.
In
comparison, the Bulgarian man's level was more than 11 times higher
than the legal blood-alcohol limit for drivers in Canada, which is
0.08.
The man, who has not been identified, was reported to be in stable condition after being treated for head injuries.
