worried1978
New Member
I was a bit silly on Friday - Had 4 pints and stupidly drove home. Making no excuses for my actions, as I know I'm fully in the wrong.
Had an accident with an oncoming car in a country lane - front offside to front offside collision.
Police were called (I was one of the people that called them)
By the time the police arrived I was very dazed and in Shock - I blew a high reading on a breath test (not that I was ever told it was anything other than very high)
After that point I was put in an ambulance and sent to hospital as my blood pressure had hit about 200
(I'll use estimates of times, as I had no watch or phone on me)
The Accident happened at about 7pm
Breath test would have been around 8pm
Got to the hospital for about 10/1030
On the way to the hospital had a massive wee (like about 2 litres worth)
saw by a nurse about 10:30 had the hospital blood test and a quick urine sample for the nurse
Then there was a long wait, the Police doctor for the official blood test didnt turn up until about 1:30
After about 15/20 minutes of three failed attempts to draw blood (very painful, but seemed like my veins weren't playing ball) he gave up
then the police said I would need to do a urine sample instead.... so they made me drink lots of water, and just before I was to go for a wee, the hospital sent in their own doctor for a checkup....
we then got back to the urine sample..... needed to down vast quantities of water before anything would happen...
So my wee sample ended up be at about 2:30 in the morning - around 7 and a half hours after the accident.
I've got two questions really:
1) Would such a long elapsed time, mean that I'm highly likely to pass the urine test
2) After doing a bit of reading "it seems" the police might not have done the urine test correctly - everything I've read suggests you have to do 2 samples within an hour, discard the first, fill back up with water and then use the second - but that isn't what happened.
Had an accident with an oncoming car in a country lane - front offside to front offside collision.
Police were called (I was one of the people that called them)
By the time the police arrived I was very dazed and in Shock - I blew a high reading on a breath test (not that I was ever told it was anything other than very high)
After that point I was put in an ambulance and sent to hospital as my blood pressure had hit about 200
(I'll use estimates of times, as I had no watch or phone on me)
The Accident happened at about 7pm
Breath test would have been around 8pm
Got to the hospital for about 10/1030
On the way to the hospital had a massive wee (like about 2 litres worth)
saw by a nurse about 10:30 had the hospital blood test and a quick urine sample for the nurse
Then there was a long wait, the Police doctor for the official blood test didnt turn up until about 1:30
After about 15/20 minutes of three failed attempts to draw blood (very painful, but seemed like my veins weren't playing ball) he gave up
then the police said I would need to do a urine sample instead.... so they made me drink lots of water, and just before I was to go for a wee, the hospital sent in their own doctor for a checkup....
we then got back to the urine sample..... needed to down vast quantities of water before anything would happen...
So my wee sample ended up be at about 2:30 in the morning - around 7 and a half hours after the accident.
I've got two questions really:
1) Would such a long elapsed time, mean that I'm highly likely to pass the urine test
2) After doing a bit of reading "it seems" the police might not have done the urine test correctly - everything I've read suggests you have to do 2 samples within an hour, discard the first, fill back up with water and then use the second - but that isn't what happened.