Woman Sets State Record

[Buster]

Woman registers a .47 on breath tester

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
<!--BEGIN ARTICLE--> REDMOND, Wash. -- A Woodinville woman arrested following two car crashes last week registered a .47 blood-alcohol content on a breath test - nearly six times the legal intoxication threshold and possibly a state record.
Deana F. Jarrett, 54, was taken to Evergreen Hospital as a precaution following her arrest April 11, the Washington State Patrol said Wednesday. No one was injured in the accidents.
Jarrett blew the .47 on a portable breath tester after she collided with two other vehicles in quick succession, the patrol said. A check of all 356,000 breath tests administered since 1998 in Washington turned up only 35 above .40 - and none of those was higher than .45.
The legal intoxication threshold in Washington is .08.
Jarrett did not appear to have a listed phone number, and it was not clear if she had obtained a lawyer.

 

[RobFunk]

thats just crazy. and scary.

 

[Buster]

i always thought you died around .35 or so.

so that is always where i stop,may have to reconsider

 

[WVU]

It sounds to me like she has a decent chance of getting the breath tester results thrown out. There is probably a greater chance that she got a false reading than actually blowing .47

 

[Buster]

follow up she was an ex cop


A former Seattle police officer returned the highest blood-alcohol reading ever recorded by a Washington state driver, and she was charged with driving under the influence Wednesday.

Deana F. Jarrett, of Woodinville, registered a 0.47 percent blood-alcohol reading after striking two cars April 11, said Trooper Jeff Merrill, public-information officer for the State Patrol. The legal limit in Washington is 0.08 percent.

A blood-alcohol level above 0.40 percent is potentially lethal.

"Someone who is an alcoholic will tolerate a higher blood-alcohol level," said Lynne Freeman, a doctor at Group Health's urgent-care clinic on Capitol Hill. "In someone who is not an alcoholic, they could die somewhere between 0.4 and 0.5."

For someone Jarrett's size — 5 feet 5 inches and 130 to 140 pounds — it would take about a fifth of liquor, 25.6 ounces, in a short period of time, to reach that blood-alcohol level, Freeman said.

"It would be many drinks," she said, and "probably straight alcohol rather than beer."

According to court records, Jarrett also goes by the name Deana Karst, and Seattle police spokesman Sean Whitcomb said Karst used to work for the department. According to city records, Karst began working as a police officer in 1979.

Jarrett, 54, who also was arrested in a traffic stop by Redmond police April 10, faces two counts of DUI. She refused a breath test in that arrest, Redmond police said.

The next day, her blood-alcohol level registered 0.47 percent after she was involved in two traffic collisions on eastbound Highway 520, Merrill said.

Five empty four-ounce plastic bottles of vodka and two empty 12-ounce cans of beer were found on the front passenger seat, according to a trooper's report


No one was injured in the collisions, which took place minutes apart, Merrill said.

"Most people black out at between 0.35 and higher," said Detective Tim Gately of the Redmond Police Department said.

After the April 10 arrest in Redmond, King County jail records show Jarrett was booked at 4:54 p.m. and released after posting $500 bail at 8:16 p.m.

After the April 11 arrest, Jarrett first was taken to Evergreen Hospital, where she had to be restrained with soft wrist restraints and was combative, according to a Patrol report.

The State Patrol uses guidelines that require troopers to seek medical attention for people who have blood-alcohol readings above 0.25 percent, Merrill added.

She then was booked into the King County jail at 5:43 p.m. and released after posting $500 bail at 12:48 a.m. last Thursday, jail records indicate.

Both arrests now have been combined into a single prosecution, with her arraignment on the two DUI charges set for 8:45 a.m. Monday in the Redmond Courthouse of King County District Court.

Jarrett, who holds a valid driver's license, also faces charges of reckless driving and a hit and run after hitting a vehicle Feb. 23, court records showed. She could not be reached for comment.

Merrill said the State Patrol maintains records on all individuals who submit to a breath test in Washington. Thirty-five of the approximately 356,000 breath tests given since 1998 have registered above 0.40 percent, a records check revealed.

An average of 42,000 to 45,000 breathalyzer tests are given each year by all law-enforcement agencies in the state. No one had registered over 0.45 percent on a breath test, Merrill said.

 

[Doug]

It sounds to me like she has a decent chance of getting the breath tester results thrown out. There is probably a greater chance that she got a false reading than actually blowing .47

I highly doubt you get this thrown out, even if the test was highly inaccurate, the BAC is just so high they have to convict.

 

[RupertPupkin]

Yea , I heard she has 3 livers

 

[mlfp]

Washington In The House!

 

[billhill999]

How many drinks do have to down to blow a .47?
Like 150 or so?

 

[oldirtyku]

Damn... She destroyed my .28 which required many many 151 and cokes...

 

[raidermattk]

My record is a .33. I was so smashed I beat up a cop which gave my two years in the big house for ag assault. After I was arrested I passed out and slept for 20 hours straight. I had drank roughly 25-30 jack and coke doubles throughout that day I was wrecked.

 

[Buster]

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[Buster]

We Have A New Leader....also A Woman

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004094566_webdui27m.html

OREGON CITY, Ore. — When they got Meagan Harper to the hospital, her blood alcohol level was .55 percent — about seven times greater than Oregon's legal limit for driving.
"You just don't see numbers that high," said Dr. Mohamud Daya, an Oregon Health & Science University associate professor and emergency room physician.
At that level, some people are so drunk they stop breathing, he said.
Harper has drunken driving convictions in Washington and Multnomah counties and was convicted in Wasco County of operating a boat while intoxicated, said Ryan Chiotti, deputy district attorney in Clackamas County. He said she is on probation for driving under the influence and is awaiting trial on another drunken driving charge next month.
A Clackamas deputy found her passed out in a car at a pizza restaurant on Nov. 28.
She appeared in court Wednesday. Chiotti urged she be jailed, under high bail, as "an extraordinary danger to the community."
Judge Patrick Gilroy set her bail at $50,000 and told her to get help, "or you'll end up dead or taking someone with you."

 

[Buster]

WHOA HERE IS A DUDE JUST 2 WEEKS AGO


Driver in fatal rail crash had .602 BAC
SCIPIO TOWNSHIP, Ind. - A 28-year-old Westville man who registered a .602 percent blood-alcohol level was killed late Saturday (Dec. 15) when his pickup truck was hit by a high-speed Amtrak train as he tried to drive around lowered crossing arms, the News Dispatch reports.

Michael E. Garner, who lived at County Road 125 South and Holmesville Road, was hit by the eastbound train - which was traveling about 79 miles per hour - at the crossing on County Road 500 West, just south of County Road 50 South, west of La Porte.

The train's engineer told La Porte County sheriff's deputies he was headed east around 11 p.m. when he saw Garner's 2003 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck slow, then maneuver around the lowered gates.

The engineer sounded the train's horn, but said Garner didn't heed the warning.

Garner was thrown from the vehicle and died instantly of a skull fracture.

"It was snowing heavily at the time, but he didn't slide into the gates," Deputy Coroner John Sullivan said. "He was driving around them."

The .602 percent blood-alcohol measured at the scene was some 7 1/2 times the legal state limit of .08 percent.

"That's the highest I've ever recorded in my career," said Sullivan, who has been a coroner for more than a decade and an emergency responder for nearly 30 years. "When you hit .6 percent, you're no longer just impaired. I was always told that between .35 percent and .45 percent, you're in an alcoholic stupor or even acute alcohol poisoning."

Sullivan said investigators don't know where Garner was driving to or from, or where he was drinking prior to the accident.

"It's just terrible," he said.

(This item appeared in the News Dispatch Dec. 18, 2007.)

 

[Rawpimple]

damn was hoping this was the high school pole vaulter breaking a record and sharing some new pictures.

 

[Addict101]

.602? Don't believe it.

 

[steaktartar]

i always thought you died around .35 or so.

so that is always where i stop,may have to reconsider

my first one i got in 1992 i was .32

 

[Rawpimple]

damn was hoping this was the high school pole vaulter breaking a record and sharing some new pictures.

no one is on this one???

 

[mlfp]

She still looks good.

 

[Buster]

JANUARY 2--Turns out the Oregon drunk driver busted with an astounding .55 blood alcohol content has previously spent time in the spotlight. And by spotlight we mean a Brooks & Dunn video in which she gyrates while wearing cutoff shorts and snakeskin boots. Meagan Harper, 30, was discovered last month passed out in a car parked outside a pizza place and charged with drunk driving. Harper, who has several prior DUI busts, is being held in the Clackamas County jail on $50,000 bail. Years before she became famous for her alcohol intake, Harper starred in the video for "Rock My World (Little County Girl)," a single from the 1993 Brooks & Dunn album "Hard Workin' Man." In the 3:44 video, which was shot near Portland and can be viewed below, a teenage Harper is first seen behind the wheel of a T-top Camaro. That is a luxury to which Harper, who is pictured in the mug shot at right, no longer has access. (1 page)



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