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In 1982, a 24-year-old woman was admitted to the UCLA emergency room with a serum alcohol content of 1.51%, corresponding to a blood alcohol content of 1.33%. She was alert and oriented to person and place and survived. [46] Serum alcohol concentration is not equal to nor calculated in the same way as blood alcohol content. [47]
Vesna Vulović (Serbian Cyrillic: Весна Вуловић, pronounced [ʋêsna ʋûːloʋitɕ]; 3 January 1950 – 23 December 2016) was a Serbian flight attendant who survived the highest fall without a parachute: 10.16 kilometres (6.31 miles) or 33,338 feet. She was the sole survivor after an explosion tore through the baggage compartment ...
Drunk drivingis the act of operating a motor vehiclewith the operator's ability to do so impaired as a result of alcohol consumption, or with a blood alcohol level in excess of the legal limit.[1] For drivers 21 years or older, driving with a blood alcohol concentration(BAC) of 0.08% or higher is illegal.
A study drawing on international BAC levels concluded that reducing the U.S. BAC level to .05 would result in an 11 percent reduction in alcohol-related crashes. Utah became the first state to ...
Kaitlin Simpson. May 15, 2024 at 6:14 PM. Sister Wives alum Garrison Brown had a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit at the time of his death. According to the official autopsy report ...
House painter. Known for. Surviving the highest known radiation dose in any human. Albert Stevens (1887–1966), also known as patient CAL-1 and most radioactive human ever, was a house painter from Ohio who was subjected to an involuntary human radiation experiment and survived the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human. [ 1 ]
Harold R. McCluskey. Harold Ralph McCluskey (July 12, 1912 – August 17, 1987) was a chemical operations technician at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant located in Washington State; he is known for having survived exposure to the highest dose of radiation from americium ever recorded. [2] He became known as the "Atomic Man". [3][4][5]
0.05% for all other drivers. Driving with 0.15% BAC by mass and above (legally defined as Drunk Driving) is a distinct offence from having over 0.08% but under 0.15% BAC, and is subject to heavier penalties. Persistent offenders may be barred from driving for terms up to and including life, and may be imprisoned.