BridgetJones
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Hey everyone, my husband crashed into a parked car at approx 11:30 pm, early July 2021. He’s been suffering from severe depression and ptsd since 2019 and has attempted to take his own life. A resident heard the crash and went to investigate, he found my husband slumped over the steering wheel sobbing. The gentleman called me on hb phone and gave me directions & also called the police.
I arrived at the scene shortly before the police and tried to calm him.
he was given a roadside breath test which he failed. He was then taken to hospital for a Ct scan they arrived back to the station around 2am. They took him to a cell until around 5am and then to a room to have another breath test but the machine malfunctioned .
they then said they would need to take a blood test. HB. is needle phobic and had a panic attack. They waited for a volunteer to sit with him and calm him then the dr took a blood test At approx 7am.
at 12 midday they finally released him pending further investigation and said there was a backlog of blood tests as there had been an illegal rave so they couldn’t say when the results would be back. that was around 11 weeks ago & We’ve not heard anything since.
Is there a limit of time by which he has to be charged by? All this waiting, not knowing is really not helping his state of mind. I’m assuming with the time passed from breath test to blood test the amount of alcohol would be a lot less, can they charge him on the roadside alone? He answered ‘no comment’ when interviewed Any advice would be appreciated thank you
I arrived at the scene shortly before the police and tried to calm him.
he was given a roadside breath test which he failed. He was then taken to hospital for a Ct scan they arrived back to the station around 2am. They took him to a cell until around 5am and then to a room to have another breath test but the machine malfunctioned .
they then said they would need to take a blood test. HB. is needle phobic and had a panic attack. They waited for a volunteer to sit with him and calm him then the dr took a blood test At approx 7am.
at 12 midday they finally released him pending further investigation and said there was a backlog of blood tests as there had been an illegal rave so they couldn’t say when the results would be back. that was around 11 weeks ago & We’ve not heard anything since.
Is there a limit of time by which he has to be charged by? All this waiting, not knowing is really not helping his state of mind. I’m assuming with the time passed from breath test to blood test the amount of alcohol would be a lot less, can they charge him on the roadside alone? He answered ‘no comment’ when interviewed Any advice would be appreciated thank you