Alcohol and Wildcamping.

[cmcardle75]

In UK they cannot prosecute on the breath test alone. It is only the reason to take you to a police station and do a blood or urine test in order to prosecute.

Actually, an evidential breath test is far more likely than either urine or blood. However, it is a large calibrated machine at the station, not a little hand held device. Two tests are done, with purges in between and they proceed on the basis of the lower test. However, under certain circumstances (certainly at some point in the past, not sure if it is still allowed), they are/were permitted to extrapolate what the level would have been had you been tested earlier.

 

[billym]

In UK they cannot prosecute on the breath test alone. It is only the reason to take you to a police station and do a blood or urine test in order to prosecute.

Geoff

That is not correct.

 

[nicholsong]

That is not correct.

Sounds as though things have changed.

Please explain what is correct.

Geoff

 

[cmcardle75]

Sounds as though things have changed.

Please explain what is correct.

The vast majority of drink driving convictions are done on the basis of breath tests. Other types of test are very rare and can only be asked for in specific circumstances. The roadside breath test doesn't count (that is only to give reasonable suspicion to allow arrest), only calibrated machines can be used in evidence.

 

[nicholsong]

The vast majority of drink driving convictions are done on the basis of breath tests. Other types of test are very rare and can only be asked for in specific circumstances. The roadside breath test doesn't count (that is only to give reasonable suspicion to allow arrest), only calibrated machines can be used in evidence.

I was posting on the basis that 'dodfloss' was referring to roadside breath tests.

Geoff

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[Langtoftlad]

"flash" flooding is what cannot always be catered for. eg; for those who remember Lynton and Lynmouth?.

I really think the police will be rather more occupied than to have time to start random breath testing escaping motorhomes - unless you give them cause.

Is this theoretical worry so minute as to not be of a concern in the real world?
Should we also not be concerned that a meteorite might hit us whilst sleeping in a pub carpark?

 

[billym]

Sounds as though things have changed.

Please explain what is correct.

Geoff

There used to be a statutory option to give blood/ urine if you blew between 35 and 50 at the police station on the calibrated machine.(35 being the legal limit)

That repealed by Schedule 11 of the Deregulations Act 2015 in April that year.

I am not sure there was ever a time that prosecutions only took place on blood/ urine results other than in exceptional circumstances

 

[Minxy]

Should we also not be concerned that a meteorite might hit us whilst sleeping in a pub carpark?

With the number of 'dinosaurs' on here at times ... we're dooooooooooooooommmmmmmmeeeeeddddddd!

 

[billym]

There used to be a statutory option to give blood/ urine if you blew between 35 and 50 at the police station on the calibrated machine.(35 being the legal limit)

That repealed by Schedule 11 of the Deregulations Act 2015 in April that year.

I am not sure there was ever a time that prosecutions only took place on blood/ urine results other than in exceptional circumstances

Of course there was a time when blood/ urine was the only way to prosecute. That I beleve went out of the window in 1983