Crime & Safety
Life-Threatening Drinking: Shoreline Driver 6 Times Over the Limit Found Along I-5
The man was found in his car around 11 a.m. Thursday parked along I-5, police say.
SHORELINE, WA - Washington State Patrol arrested a Shoreline man on Wednesday morning who was found unconscious in his car along I-5, and was discovered to have a life-threateningly high blood-alcohol content.
Around 10:30 a.m. Thursday, state troopers got a call about a Volvo driving erratically northbound on I-5 near the Seattle border. A trooper later located the car parked in the grass near the shoulder at 236th Street Southwest in Mountlake Terrace.
The driver, a 31-year-old man from Shoreline, was sleeping with his foot on the brake and the car running, police said. The fire department had to come and remove the man from the car because the trooper couldn't rouse him.
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The man's blood-alcohol content was .480, six times over the legal limit of 0.80. No matter a person's body weight, a blood-alcohol content level about .350 is considered life-threatening. The man was taken to Northwest Hospital for treatment, but he was placed under arrest on suspicion of DUI.
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