Drink driving limits in Germany

Hi All..

Well last night I had a real nice eveing IN Ruined by the long arm of the law stopping me at 01.30hrs..

It was basically a road block at the Frankfurter ring end of the A9.

Driving license... please
Car Doccuments.. please..

I CAN SMELL ALCOHOL!!... Hardly surprising, for me that is.

So... My question is... what is the legal limmit for drink driving. IE, what readout should be indicated on their breath test meter.? 0.0???

Certainly spoils a night out, nesting!!

No drink Driving is just a big No No.
Either or. When you drink you dont drive and the other way round.
However legal limit is 0.5 but if you are involved in an accident you will automatically be guilty at least partly, even if it wasn't your fault at all. So be aware.

So did you actually get tested Grinner or how did it turn out in the end?

Actually the limit is 0,8. It is not tooo bad here, you get a fine or a small suspension unless you are involved in some kind of accident...

But don´t drink and drive...i know it´s hard

Since April 1997 another four EU member States (Denmark, Spain, Austria and Germany) have lowered their BAC limits to 50mg, leaving only Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and the UK with a legal limit greater than 50mg per 100ml blood.

Yeah I got tested alright...

it's after 0,3 promile it's taken into account that you've consumed the stuff.
after 0,5 promile its pay your fine time plus points in flensburg.
after 0,8 bye bye fahrerlaubnis how long dependson your circumstances.
after 1,2 your in for the idiot test.

basic rule don't fucking do it. your not being clever, your being a dick. if you kill someone because of it you'll being paying for that in your mind for the rest of your life. if you killed my wife and children because of it; i would baseball bat your head. and if that dosn't impress you my mother -in-law has just got her's back (oh yes i gave her big time shit) it cost 3700 euros in fines and costs.

my motto
if your going to drink, drink lots
if your going to drive, drive sober

last year l saw the police blocking the exit from the aumeister biergarten - they did it 100 yards down the road so that people would have started driving home before they saw the road block. they caught quite a few people from the look of it.

when they start breathalysing people on bikes then l 'll be in trouble

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone...

Did they not give you a result at the time Grinner?

Spot on Gideon. Could not agree more.

Don Riina (whose made the decision not to even learn to drive, because it means you cannot have a beer )

Unfortunately they can and do. If you get caught it is a fine plus points in Flensburg if you have a driving licence. Really.
Katrina

I saw someone killed once by a guy coming from a nightclub - admittedly don;t know if he was drinking or not - but he was racing another guy. Guy only got 2 year sentence in the end.

Moral is though - don't fucking do it - you don't need that shit on your conscience.

Yeah, I'm all for not drinking and driving too, but c'mon. You guys are all up on your high horses. Are you trying to tell me you've never driven after having a beer or a glass of wine? I'm not talking about being loaded, I'm talking about a drink or two at the very most.

@ katrina

true, but unless your really stupid and break another law such as a red light etc, they thankfuly turn a blind eye; which i personaly must say is right, munich has way to many oppotunities to get drunk that require a bike to get there ... if they stopped everybody think of the paperwork!
i once fell off my bike right next to a police car, yes i was “well oiled�, the asked me a few questions, but as my kiwi friend and i were so busy shouting at each other in english (words to the effect of, “you speak to ‘em your german is better�, “na, fuck you i‘m drunk�), they just got back in the car and fucked off, their human too good on ‘em. to conclude, if your on a bike drunk your more than likely to only do yourself harm (which i did that night, cycled into the “grit tower� north of Münchner Freiheit, oww!), if your in a car your a danger to the public.

@ showem

twice since 1996, and only then after two weissbiers. and then the 800 metres from grosshadern to gräfelfing. have you seen what a car can do to a human body?? with 30 kmH you'll probly destroy somebodies knee, krippleing them for life and they'll bounce of your bonnet or smack into your windscreen wipers causing serious head damadge. if you hit a kid, they fly a good few meteres forwaed, and due too their hieght you'll crush their ribs causeing massive internal injuries. oh enjoy that forth beer before you get in the car.

Why on earth do all the Brits and others call it 'drink driving'? Maybe it's just that I'm used to it, but 'drunk driving' just makes more logical sense - 'drunk' is an adjective describing the action 'driving'. That is obviously not how 'drink driving' is intended to be read. Please, someone enlighten me on the grammatical role that 'drink' plays in that statement...

But I wasnt Drunk... so therefore "Drunk Driving would not apply here, either.

I will tell all later..

Gideon, 800 meters. Why the hell did you drive in the first place? And as I said, I asked about 1 or 2 beers, not driving after your fourth beer. Anyways, I don't drive here, so it's not even a question for me.

@ showem

easy, i had to pick the car up on the way home ptherwise my wife would have ripped my fucking bollockss off. i think actualy it was more like 1,5 kms, but anyway too far for wife and pushchair-kiddie-rain combination.

sorry about the u, (mental note: must remember to press the keys firmly)

The one and only time i was driving while being drunk was in Ireland, when I just arrived and only 3 weeks after getting the car. I got completely lost. Went reverse back into the roundabout at the N1 at 4am in th emorning. Only car around was the guardai (police). It scared the shit out of me, but they were really nice, closed up the roundabout, so I could go reverse and escorted us home. Finally we were home safely and the policemen wished us a wondeful holiday.
I was lucky and I know I didn't deserve it. Still blushing when thinking about it and that was 4 years ago.
This is a good story for the pub, but honestly I felt immediately sober and this was so freaky that I have never done it again and will never do.
One beer is ok as Showem says but if there is anyway to leave the car, then DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE, not even one.

Gideon is spot on.

Here's what happened..

Returning home from a freinds house at about 01.30, I turned Left off the Frankfurter ring to join the A9..

I saw what I thought was an accident.

Bloke stands in middle of the road, waving a red Stop light at me..

I stop and wind down my window..
He asks for car papers and License.
I produce them like a good little boy.
He then says "I smell alcohol"

He suggests that I pull to one side to take a Breath test..

I pull over.
Plod No2 comes over, asks for documents, which I produced again..
SHE then asks me take a breath test.. I do, Reading says 0.00.
SHE then asks if I have had any alcohol.. I say NO!
She says, but I can smell it..

I open the boot of my car , and show her two and a half crates of empty beer bottles which need to be returned and re-filled.

She was not too pleased.

Oh well
Another happy ending..

As for sayings.. heres mine

Once a king, always a king.
But once a night's enough.

then why the fuss mate??
you daft bugger, you should have told them that at the start.

cool! So everyone can get off their high horses now as you're a good boy after all

My colleague got done after 4 beers and had his car keys removed, big taxi costs home and to collect the car the next day. Apparently he would have lost his licence, but we'd eaten 104 plates of sushi between 4 of us so the rice obviously soaked it up...

I agree with all the "jockeys" though, I only ever drive with a max of one beer... and no mobile phone in my hand.

Did you see the show on TV recently where they got a group of test drivers totally plastered and made them drive through a skid circuit? They all made it, no problem.

Then they did the same test sober, but with a mobile phone... and 90% of them wiped out.

Why? - do the radio waves affect driving ability?

Remember to leave your wheelchair at home!

German in Wheelchair Busted For Drunk Driving

On Mother's Day, I had the unfortunate experience of driving behind what appeared to be an extremely drunk driver. It was 10 am on a Sunday. The man was driving between Oberschleissheim and Munich (through Feldmoching and Fasanerie). He swerved into the oncoming traffic several times but it was after the first time he did it that we called the police. They kept us on the phone until they finally caught up with us (and him). When he finally pulled over (.5 km later and three police cars surrounding him!), he blew a .35. .35! We had to give a written statement on what we saw and the police thanked us repeatedly for calling. I am just wondering how someone could actually still be walking and talking with that much alcohol in them?

Two funny bits: 1) it seems like his mother (it was Mother's Day) was in the passenger seat and 2) while were were standing there with 3 police cars = 6 cops, another drive took the right hand turn onto the street a little too wide, drove up over the curb and onto a very large rock where he was stuck. He was frantically asking other drivers to help him get his car off the rock...drink much?