ABSTRACT
The jurisdiction in the BRD knows a threshold value of the blood alcohol concentration from which on the actual absolute driving unfitness without any further evidence will be assumed. This threshold value has been lowered by the highest german criminal court (BGH) from so far 1.3% to now 1.1 g%. As the determination of the alcohol content takes place in two different procedures as a mean value out of four or five single values, the highest court orders a dispersion control--the standard deviation from 0.03 g% or 0.04 g%. The authors proof that therefore a dissimilar treatment of motor traffic participants under the influence of alcohol may be possible. The reason is to be traced in the different distributions of a single values around the mean value and in the incorrect application of the standard deviation.
Subject(s)
Accidents, Traffic/legislation & jurisprudence , Alcohol Drinking/blood , Alcohol Drinking/legislation & jurisprudence , Alcoholic Intoxication/blood , Automobile Driving/legislation & jurisprudence , Ethanol/pharmacokinetics , Germany , Humans , Predictive Value of TestsSubject(s)
Ethanol , Alcoholic Beverages , Aldehydes/blood , Aldehydes/urine , Carbonic Acid/blood , Carbonic Acid/urine , Ethanol/blood , Ethanol/metabolism , Ethanol/urine , Humans , Time FactorsABSTRACT
Guinea pigs were poisoned by large oral doses of hypnotics in order to study the effect of bromureides on the mast cell contents of the lungs in comparison to the influence of barbiturate intoxication. The dose of the hypnotics chosen was thus, that all animals died within the first three hours after the beginning of feeding. Then the degranulation of mast cells with decrease of the mast cell number in the lung tissue was merely small in the barbiturate poisoned animals, but very extensive in the animals intoxicated by bromureides. The difference is highly significant. The possible influence of this effect upon the different clinical course of both kinds of intoxication is discussed.
