From: Tinder, Akemi (ANE/IR)
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 2:00 PM
Subject: Record-setting achievement

First Nancy Pelosi assumes the House speakership, and now this. Women have come so far...

Woman registers a .47 on breath tester
AP, April 18, 2007

REDMOND, Wash. --A Woodinville woman arrested following two car crashes last week registered a .47 blood-alcohol content on a breath test -- nearly six times the legal intoxication threshold and possibly a state record.

Deana F. Jarrett, 54, was taken to Evergreen Hospital as a precaution following her arrest April 11, the Washington State Patrol said Wednesday. No one was injured in the accidents.

Jarrett blew the .47 on a portable breath tester after she collided with two other vehicles in quick succession, the patrol said. A check of all 356,000 breath tests administered since 1998 in Washington turned up only 35 above .40 -- and none of those was higher than .45.

The legal intoxication threshold in Washington is .08.

Jarrett did not appear to have a listed phone number, and it was not clear if she had obtained a lawyer.