TROY (WWJ) -- Last week, police and medical officials assisted in a case of a very drunken man in Troy whose blood alcohol level was four times over the legal limit.
At approximately 2:21 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 18, Troy police officers and paramedics from Alliance Mobile Health were dispatched to the area of northbound Livernois Road, south of Long Lake Road, for a welfare check on reports of a driver slumped over his steering wheel.
When an Alliance Paramedic arrived on the scene first, authorities said he located the driver on Livernois Road asleep behind the wheel while the vehicle was in reverse.
The paramedic was able to wake the driver and have him put the vehicle in park.
Officers arrived and said they spoke with the driver, a 51-year-old male from Troy, who stated he was on his way home from work and admitted to having 3 shots of vodka.
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Officers noted the driver’s eyes were glassy and bloodshot, his speech was slow and slurred and there was an odor of intoxicants wafting off of him.
The driver was asked to perform several sobriety evaluations -- he was unable to complete any of them. So then he submitted to a preliminary breath test with a result of .347%.
Following that result, the man was arrested and transported to the Troy police lock-up facility where he agreed to submit to a chemical breath test with results of .38% and .39%.
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The driver was charged with operating while intoxicated.
Due to the driver’s high blood alcohol level, he was transported to the hospital for medical treatment.
The driver's name has not been released.
