One of the great causes of traffic accidents since historical records have been available, awareness of the danger of driving after having consumed alcohol is becoming more entrenched in Spain every year, although it continues to be a serious problem. Therefore (DGT) to eradicate this disastrous attitude, which takes time to erase its trace from the body.
Yes. Even a drink or a third behind the wheel can be very serious for driving. It has been shown that its intake decreases the ability to react to a sudden maneuver, as well as the attention to everything that surrounds a road.
Therefore, the danger of piloting even having consumed a beer, a wine or a glass of any harder alcohol. And it is that any record of alcohol takes to be completely eliminated from the blood until after between 10 and 19 hours (around 10-20 ml per hour). However, in more moderate intakes, oddly enough, rums, gins, whiskeys, vodkas… are the ones that evaporate the fastest, either through organic metabolism or through excretion.
The distillation of the alcohol as well as the mixture with sugar helps it to evaporate before the blood
This is due to the amount of sugar with which they are mixed in their cocktails, as well as the distillation process they have gone through. Always depending on the person, as many factors influence such as body mass, food and drink ingested, age… in a man a glass of a cubalibre takes just over an hour to disappear from the blood, while in a woman takes just over three hours, on average.
For its part, the glass of wine and a third of beer take longer to eliminate them from the body. Of course, with an advantage for the Bacchus liquor, in men a drink takes about an hour and a half, while in women it exceeds three hours; the beer reaches two hours and three and a half hours, respectively.
Fines, from 500 euros to jail time
In this way, even in a minimum intake before a breathalyzer control, it can be positive, which would be evidencing a risk to road safety. With the limit in blood set at 0.5 g/l, regardless of men and women, in breathed air it is 0.25 mg/l.
For those drivers who exceed these barriers, the fines are 500 euros and the withdrawal of four points on the driving license. Of course, once the 0.5 mg/l in breathed air is exceeded, which is the most common test, the penalty will be 1,000 euros and six points.
Lastly, from 0.6 mg/l onwards, a criminal offense is breached that entails a sentence of three to six months in prison and between six and twelve months of work for the community, depending on each case. In addition, it supposes the total loss of the license from one to four years. Repeat offenses or refusals to pass a test are even more punishable and the prison term can be increased to twelve months.
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