Driving the day after a night out?

Work out how many units of alcohol you've had, there are plenty of apps for that. Don't drive for that many number of hours after your last drink.

I've been out on a night out and slept in my car, to then wake up from a beautiful nights sleep at 10am and drive instantly 60 miles. I was incredibly drunk on the night but for some reason felt completely fine the day after. I slept in my drivers seat.

But I suppose it highly depends on your build and how much you drink, I'm a bigger lad so I suppose I can process drink better, I also made a B-Line straight to Maccies for a McMuffin

(slept in my car because I got locked out of my house)

Oh my!

Are you aware that its technically an offensive# to sleep in your car if your drunk (unless there is someone else there who is sober) especially if you have the keys (God help you if the engines is on for say heat as that could look like you have or will attempt to drive when your unfit to do so) and are in the driver's seat?


Note that sometime the police use common sense but not always here as people have being arrested for being drunk and in charge while getting their thing out the boot of their car while waiting for a taxi.

Furthermore alcohol’s psychoactive effects on the brain reduces quicker than it leaves your breath, blood or urine. But that irrelevant as far as the laws is concerned so even though you may not feel drunk alcohol’s effect on the body is reducing after a heavy drinking session you could still be over the prescribed limit of 80 mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood if you were still drink in the early hours of the morning before falling a sleep in your car.

It sounds like you could have unwitting driven with a alcohol concentration above the prescribed limit. I would personally wait 12 hours after a heavy drinking session.


# see Road Traffic Act 1988 s.4(2 & 3 )): “A person who, when in charge of a mechanically propelled vehicle which is on a road or other public place, is unfit to drive through drink or drugs is guilty of an offence.” .

“or the purposes of subsection (2) above, a person shall be deemed not to have been in charge of a mechanically propelled vehicle if he proves that at the material time the circumstances were such that there was no likelihood of his driving it so long as he remained unfit to drive through drink or drugs.”

It seems as though implying you plan to drive in say the morning when you could reasonably be still unfit to drive or have alcohol concentration above prescribed limit in breath, blood or urine.

I understand what I did was wrong but I literally had no other choice

Work out how many units of alcohol you've had, there are plenty of apps for that. Don't drive for that many number of hours after your last drink.

The obvious decision would have been not to go out if you had no safe method to do so; your defence wouldn't have held up in court - "the sesh was more important".

What the **** is this.

No I mean my flatmate locked the front door AFTER I had left to go out, didn't know he had locked it until I came back

And you didn't have a key?

I did have a key but my door is double locked, I neglected to bring the other key as I specifically told my flatmate to not lock the door so I couldn't unlock the door. My flatmate loves trolling me but this was a genuine mistake, he told me the day after he completely forgot and was very tired so he locked it and went to sleep without thinking about it.

If what you're saying is true, then fair play, sounds like a crap time for you!

A very very very VERY rough estimation of alcohol metabolisation.

I'm thinking gravel, yes?

We're talking like 60-grit sandpaper here.

I understand what I did was wrong but I literally had no other choice, sleeping in my car was the only option unless I wanted to sleep on the street.

When I'm drunk I have a massive amount of common sense so I'm not completely brain dead, so I put the keys in the glove box before I fell asleep.

Woke up to a happy and tbh I did wait an hour or so before I drove so I can cope and get over myself, drank lots of water and I felt better, a lot better, very quickly. All I can say is thank god for that amazing pizza from Al Forno for being great the morning after (10/10 review)