Motorist’s alcohol reading off charts

Hyderabad: To the surprise of the traffic police, when a motorist was made to undergo breath analyser test on December 31, the instrument gave a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) reading of 608 mg/100 ml. This is perhaps the highest reading of a drunk driver in three commissionerates.
The drunk driver was caught by Rachakonda police when he was driving his vehicle after New Year celebrations.Similarly, in Cyberabad police commissionerate eight motorists were caught with BAC of above 500 mg/100 ml, 37 motorists’ reading was above 300mg/100ml. The permissible level is 30mg/100ml.
Police in Hyderabad, Cyberabad and Rachakonda caught 2,498 drunk drivers, with the highest persons caught in Hyderabad (1,265 motorists), followed by 873 motorists in Cyberabad and 360 motorists in Rachakonda. Since this is going to be a long weekend, officials in Cyberabad want to continue the drive against drunk driving. Hyderabad had the highest number of drunk drivers caught in the last three years.
Throughout the city most of the cases in the three commissionerates were registered in Kukatpally, Gachibowli, Madhapur, Miyapur, Uppal, Kushaiguda, Vanasthalipuram, Jubilee Hills, Banjara Hills and SR Nagar. In Rachakonda, highest number of persons who were caught were in a age group between 21 and 30 years.