S.D. Woman Found Behind the Wheel with a 0.708 Blood Alcohol Content – 9 Times the Legal Limit!

South Dakota State’s Attorney, Jesse Sondreal, released information this week about a woman charged with 2 counts of impaired driving.

Sondreal says that police found Marguerite Engle, 45, passed out at the wheel of a van on the side of Interstate 90 on Dec 1^st. The van had been reported stolen and when police tested Engle for alcohol, she scored an astonishing 0.708 blood alcohol content (BAC) which is almost 9 times the legal limit of 0.08.

Engle was ordered to appear at a preliminary court hearing on Dec 15^th. She missed the court appearance but police caught up to her on Monday – once again in a stolen vehicle and once again drunk.

Engle is now in custody awaiting trial.

Medical examiner’s officials in South Dakota say that Engle’s BAC exceeds anything they can ever remember in-state, though she falls just short of a national record for drunkest motorist ever, edged out by a woman in Oregon last year who was found slumped behind the wheel of a car with a BAC of 0.720.

A BAC of 0.35 or greater can be fatal.