Reader’s Question:

Can blood alcohol test show how long the person had been drinking before driving? And in a DUI arrest, if an officer in Louisville, Kentucky would measure my blood alcohol content using the breath test, can I ask for a blood alcohol test?

John

Louisville, KY

In a DUI arrest, time is very important in measuring the blood alcohol content (BAC) of a person who is suspected to be driving under the influence of alcohol. The time that passes between drinking alcoholic beverage and collecting blood sample would greatly affect the results. The body would continue to break down alcohol at a steady rate after drinking which means that the amount of alcohol that a person drinks could be estimated by knowing how much alcohol is present in the blood and how much time has passed since the person had a drink. But the blood alcohol test only measures the amount of alcohol in the blood at the time that blood sample is taken and it doesn’t show how long the person had been drinking before driving.

If in case you get arrested for DUI in Louisville, Kentucky and the police officer uses the breath test to measure your BAC and you think that the test is inaccurate, you can definitely ask for a blood alcohol test instead. There are a lot of factors that could affect the BAC if a breath test is used and this has already been proven to be inaccurate in many DUI cases.

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