How long does it take for alcohol to leave your system? - The Morning After - Drink Driving

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The drink drive limit

There are strict drink driving penalties if you are caught over the limit. but it’s impossible to say exactly how many drinks this equals - it’s different for each person.

🔴The limits in Scotland are different to the rest of the UK.

While units can't tell you if you're over the legal limit, tracking them helps you monitor your alcohol intake. Use the drinkaware unit and calorie calculator below to easily keep tabs.

There is no official "police" calculator, but various reputable organizations provide online blood alcohol content (BAC) calculators that estimate when it might be safe to drive based on factors like the number and type of drinks consumed, body weight, gender, and the time elapsed. 

Online Alcohol Calculators

These calculators use formulas like the Widmark formula to provide an estimate, but they are not 100% accurate due to individual metabolism differences: 

• The Morning After Calculator: Helps estimate when you will be safe to drive the morning after drinking.

• Confused.com Drink Driving Calculator: Estimates your BAC using the Widmark Formula and provides an estimate of when alcohol should have left your system.

• Drinkdriving.org BAC Calculator: An online tool to estimate an individual's BAC level at a certain time.

• Responsibility.org Virtual Bar: An interactive tool to help understand how different factors affect your BAC. 

Important Considerations

• Only Time Lowers BAC: Nothing can lower your BAC except time. Coffee, cold showers, or food will not help you sober up faster.

• Individual Variation: Everyone metabolizes alcohol differently, so these calculators are estimates only and should not be relied upon to determine fitness to drive.

• The Only Safe Option: The only truly safe course of action is not to drink any alcohol if you plan to drive. 

ℹ️ For information on legal limits and penalties in the UK, you can use the Drink Driving Penalty Calculator from Drinkdriving.org. 

ℹ️ For advice and support on alcohol abuse, you can visit Drinkaware or seek support about drugs through the Talk to Frank service. 

Aggravating Factors - Your sentence may be increased if:

• You have a previous conviction for a similar offence
• You were drink driving whilst on bail
• You have failed to comply with a current court order
• You were driving large or heavy goods or passenger service vehicle
• The road or weather conditions were poor
• You had passengers in your vehicle
• You were driving for hire
• There is evidence that you were driving to an unacceptable standard
• You were involved in an accident
• There was a high level of traffic or pedestrians in the area at the time you were driving

🚓  You cannot drive anywhere in the UK if you’ve been banned by any UK court because of drink driving 🚓

ℹ️ If you see someone who you believe may be driving whilst under the influence of drink or drugs and the crime is  happening at the time, please ring us on 999. 

ℹ️ If you have intelligence on a habitual drink or drug driver whyou know repeats this behaviour regularly, please send us a direct message on Facebook, or report it on our website: https://orlo.uk/OMXP3 

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