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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing drunk driving rules here in Thailand. I thought of making this video after reading a recent, well it's not so recent actually, it's from 2014. It was an article from the Phuket News, thephuketnews.com, and the title of the article is: Questions & Answers: Thailand alcohol blood level driving legal limit. Again this is from back in 2014 but based on my research it is still relevant. 

Quoting directly: "Ralph in Rawai asks: We hear a lot of talk in the bar about drinking and driving limits, or lack thereof in Phuket. But surely there are legal limits. What is the maximum alcohol blood level that would be enforced at a police checkpoint, with a breathalyzer test, for example? How many beers can I have within a given time period and still be within the legal limit to drive?" Well that depends on your height, weight and proportions and things. The answer came from Patong Police Traffic Chief, Ekkarat Plaidoung answers: “In Thailand, the Standard Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) limit is set at 0.05%, which means you are legal if there is no more than 50 mg/deciliter of blood which can be tested through both blood or breathalyzer test. In normal circumstances, 50 mg/deciliter means about two glasses of beer, so in general you should try not to go above this." Well yeah, you shouldn't drunk drive period. Just generally speaking it's not a good idea. It could lead to endangering oneself and endangering others but yeah 0.05 is the limit here in Thailand. Now you'll hear folks talk about there are different rules regarding different like licensure; if you have like an international license they kind of treat things differently. But from what our understanding is and from what we have dealt with dealing with cases in the past 0.05 does seem to be the sort of hard and fast rule with regard to drinking and driving here in Thailand.

Now that said, I don't encourage anyone to do this. If you're on the line it is probably just a good idea, especially in Thailand where mass transit as well as other types of transportation, taxis, motorbike taxis in a lot of the beach towns, so-called baht-buses, also called "song taew" which are like the trucks that you will see with the topper on them where you will see they will have benches in the back and people can get on and off as they come and go and ride around the various beach towns. There is a plethora of transportation opportunities out there. So for those who are worried about this, if you can at all avoid it, just don't drink and drive at all.