^ I had a friend do the same 2 years ago in August, head on into a lorry. Gutting. Thank god he was on his own in the car.

The quantity of units varies from person to person,because its the quantity in your blood and different people have different quantities of blood in their bodies.

There's no blood in bodyfat,so you cant measure it on bodyweight.

This means that whilst some people need an hour to break down one unit of alcohol,others need two hours. It takes an hour to start,so it can take five hours to break down one pint of beer! After an all-weekender,you can still be over the limit thursday night,let alone monday morning!

Four cans of Stella in the evening can have me over the limit the next morning. For this reason,most motorists who drink alcohol are regular drink drivers.

I find it incredible that comprehensive drink-drive education is not mandatory for new drivers.

As for police testing,eating makes no difference whatsoever. All an empty stomach changes is the speed in which the alcohol gets into the blood. This becomes irrelevant to testing within an hour of drinking.