Apparently, hitting a blood alcohol number of 0.26 is not easy. But Westminster City Councilman Andy Quach was able to get there. Andy Quach is on his way to becoming the Amy Winehouse of the Westminster City Council.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) shows that a 150 lb person needs 3 drinks in 1 hour to be over 0.08. Over 4 hrs, the 150 lb person would need to consume 5 drinks to be over the legal limit. But 0.08 is nowhere near 0.26!
Wisconsin's Department of Transportation Safety and Consumer Protection section has an online blood/breath alcohol concentration (BAC) calculator. The calculator says if a 150 lb man consumes 10 drinks in an hour (that's one drink every 6 minutes, on average), the BAC will be 0.245. Still didn't get to that 0.26!
Now we know it takes at least 10 drinks, consumed very fast in a short period of time, to get that drunk. If you're partying for a longer time, it's going to take a few more drinks.
Healthy Horns, the University Health Services site for the University of Texas at Austin, gives a little more insight into the situation. The site describes the effects of a BAC of 0.25% as "All mental, physical, and sensory functions are severely impaired. You're emotionally numb. There's an increased risk of asphyxiation of choking on vomit and of seriously injuring yourself by falling or other accidents."
And, for some reason, Westminster City Councilman Andy Quach thought he could drive? Was he driving to the Amy Winehouse awards?
For his own health, and the health of everyone in Orange County who drives, Councilman Quach needs to resign to have time to go to residential rehab to get his problems worked out. It's just a matter of time before Quach kills some one. He needs to get off the road and into rehab.
Photo: Orange City Councilman Steve Ambriz with Miss Orange, taken in January 2006, about 5 months before he was killed by Sara Lyn Ward on Santiago Canyon Road.
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