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Drunk driver tells police his impairment level is a "12" on a scale of 1-10

Crashed car after an accident
Crashed car after an accident
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Police in Burien, Washington were called to the scene of a suspected drunk driver who crashed his van into several cars parked on the side of the road.

When the police arrived at the crash site, though, the driver didn't do too much to try and hide his impairment.


According to KOMO News, the driver admitted to officers that he had just left a nearby bar, and was distracted because he was talking on the phone. He was issued a preliminary breath test, which he failed, and then deputies asked him to rate his level of intoxication on a scale of 1-10, "with zero being completely sober and ten being the most intoxicated he had ever been." The driver answered that he felt he was at a "12!"

The driver was given a blood draw, and was then booked into a King County jail facility for investigation of DUI.