badtime
Member
Hi,
I am ashamed of what I have done and I regret it but I have been caught driving under the influence of alcohol sunday morning (roughly 3.00 am). I had a couple of cans (pint size) and a couple bottle of lagers at my friends place and after not feeling too great about sleeping in the couch i decided to drive off. I was caught by the police from my driveway and I admitted drinking alcohol. I truly regret what I have done and I am thinking of giving up alcohol let alone drink and drive again.
Police took me to the police station and they stated that I was driving cautiously slow at under 10 miles and hour which is not true apart from when I actually parked the car in the driveway which will have been that speed understandably. However under the circumstances of how i was tested, I blew a few times in the breath analyser but it returned as 'mouth alcohol' 'unsatisfactory specimen' (it was a camic datamaster). However, there is a line on the same print out which says simulator check 1 :34 micrograms/100ml. Does it mean that the reading was 34 or does it mean it was just the machine checking itself? I was at one point accused of not blowing when I certainly was. Nonetheless the office in charge put me in a cell and then i passed urine once drank a little water from the wash basin. I later wanted to drink more water and wanted to use the urinal but wasn't offered any more water. I slept in the cell till they woke me up and took a blood test at around 7.50am. I chose to take a sample for independent testing. My question is from the above account has there been any wrong doing by the police? I really would not like to be charged if I wasn't above limit and if they took a blood sample when the breath analyser couldn't collect a satisfactory sample. Can you please advice if there has been any incorrect procedures followed from the above account and do I stand a chance in defence? I am planning to send my blood sample to an RTA authorised forensic lab. Your help will be much appreciated
I am ashamed of what I have done and I regret it but I have been caught driving under the influence of alcohol sunday morning (roughly 3.00 am). I had a couple of cans (pint size) and a couple bottle of lagers at my friends place and after not feeling too great about sleeping in the couch i decided to drive off. I was caught by the police from my driveway and I admitted drinking alcohol. I truly regret what I have done and I am thinking of giving up alcohol let alone drink and drive again.
Police took me to the police station and they stated that I was driving cautiously slow at under 10 miles and hour which is not true apart from when I actually parked the car in the driveway which will have been that speed understandably. However under the circumstances of how i was tested, I blew a few times in the breath analyser but it returned as 'mouth alcohol' 'unsatisfactory specimen' (it was a camic datamaster). However, there is a line on the same print out which says simulator check 1 :34 micrograms/100ml. Does it mean that the reading was 34 or does it mean it was just the machine checking itself? I was at one point accused of not blowing when I certainly was. Nonetheless the office in charge put me in a cell and then i passed urine once drank a little water from the wash basin. I later wanted to drink more water and wanted to use the urinal but wasn't offered any more water. I slept in the cell till they woke me up and took a blood test at around 7.50am. I chose to take a sample for independent testing. My question is from the above account has there been any wrong doing by the police? I really would not like to be charged if I wasn't above limit and if they took a blood sample when the breath analyser couldn't collect a satisfactory sample. Can you please advice if there has been any incorrect procedures followed from the above account and do I stand a chance in defence? I am planning to send my blood sample to an RTA authorised forensic lab. Your help will be much appreciated
