WINNIPEG – One of the drivers pulled over in the 2014 holiday season checkstop had a blood alcohol level so high, most people would have been unconscious.
Fewer drivers were stopped and charged by police in Winnipeg during the five-week period, a Winnipeg Police Service news release said Wednesday. There were 2,229 people pulled over, down about 1,900 from last year.
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A total of 45 people, 39 of them men, were charged with impaired driving.
The youngest person charged is 20, while the oldest is 69. The average age is 38.
One of the people pulled over had a blood alcohol concentration of .31 (310 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood), nearly four times the legal limit of .08. Most people lose consciousness and can be in danger of life-threatening alcohol poisoning at that level, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
The average blood alcohol concentration among those arrested was .143.
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— With files from The Canadian Press
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