RIP Ryan Dunn
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- mg330
That is sad, and expected... but a little info on this, from my own experience:
Blood alcohol limits at the time of an autopsy don't accurately represent the level of drunkenness a person was at at the time of death. Alcohol, being stored in the spleen, is often heavily filtered out into the blood after serious internal trauma. This can make the test results look like a person was far more drunk than they were. And, given that both of their bodies suffered massive trauma, it's understandable in this situation that it could have been elevated because of the trauma. Also, I don't even know how they did the test considering how badly they were injured and burned.
I know of this because my sister, who died 15 years ago in a very awful car wreck, also had high levels of alcohol in her blood. But she died early in an afternoon, we think just a tragic accident that happened or that she fell asleep driving. At the most, we know she had a glass of wine the previous night - not nearly enough alcohol to be an illegal or dangerous limit, especially not 15+ hours later.
Granted, it's very obvious that alcohol probably played a factor in Dunn's crash. Just saying in this case that autopsy results often elevate blood alcohol limits after serious trauma. They never say that on the news. I actually got in an argument on a radio show on this very topic after it was being discussed, back when i was in college.
- sorry to hear :(********
- Also, I thought the BAC report was going to take a week or two to get back. Maybe the expedited it.bulletfactory
- yeah, i wondered that too., how that got it back so quickly.mg33
- rly sry to hear that mate. i wish i couldn't relate to that. but i can.Hombre_Lobo
- sorry to hear :(