State Police Fatal Accident Unit Releases Findings on Drag Strip Crash that Claimed L

[Charlie Yannetti]

My question would be why someone would take the time to convert an ethanol level to a blood alcohol level without explanation....... would ethanol more likely be in something that was consumed or in a fuel mixture that was contained in the car and possibly dispersed during the accident....... if it is in fact the latter, I would find it irresponsible to make the intial conversion, and then publish a report indicating that there was alcohol present because of that conversion......

I'm sure that a more extensive autopsy report exists explaning exactly what caused the presence of ethanol, but we probably will not be privileged to that...... hopefully the Kalitta family will be.......

[SSTRACER323]

Being in the Body Shop my whole life i have washed my hands with thinner, and painted without a mask and .... My body has absorbed enough chemicals to know give me health problems.

Is it possible that the ethanol got into his system from years of mixing fuel,
you always see the drivers mixing there own fuel. He could have absorbed it the same way i have....????

[SC183]

Ethanol, also called ethyl alcohol, pure alcohol, grain alcohol, or drinking alcohol, is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid. It is a psychoactive drug, best known as the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages and in thermometers. In common usage, it is often referred to simply as alcohol.
Ethanol is abbreviated as EtOH, using the common organic chemistry notation of representing the ethyl group (C2H5) with Et. This designation is used both by EMS and Hospital ER staff when describing alcohol intoxication, and is found in most chemistry textbooks as well.

Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol, carbinol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha or wood spirits, is a chemical compound with chemical formula CH3OH (often abbreviated MeOH).
Methanol is often called wood alcohol because it was once produced chiefly as a byproduct of the destructive distillation of wood. It is now produced synthetically by a multi-step process: natural gas or coal gas and steam are reformed in a furnace to produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide; then, hydrogen and carbon monoxide gases react under pressure in the presence of a catalyst.
Because of its poisonous properties, methanol is frequently used as a denaturant additive for ethanol manufactured for industrial uses— this addition of a poison economically exempts industrial ethanol from the rather significant 'liquor' taxes that would otherwise be levied as it is the essence of all potable alcoholic beverages

[mcaruso]

Originally Posted by SC183

Ethanol, also called ethyl alcohol, pure alcohol, grain alcohol, or drinking alcohol, is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid. It is a psychoactive drug, best known as the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages and in thermometers. In common usage, it is often referred to simply as alcohol.
Ethanol is abbreviated as EtOH, using the common organic chemistry notation of representing the ethyl group (C2H5) with Et. This designation is used both by EMS and Hospital ER staff when describing alcohol intoxication, and is found in most chemistry textbooks as well.

Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol, carbinol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha or wood spirits, is a chemical compound with chemical formula CH3OH (often abbreviated MeOH).
Methanol is often called wood alcohol because it was once produced chiefly as a byproduct of the destructive distillation of wood. It is now produced synthetically by a multi-step process: natural gas or coal gas and steam are reformed in a furnace to produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide; then, hydrogen and carbon monoxide gases react under pressure in the presence of a catalyst.
Because of its poisonous properties, methanol is frequently used as a denaturant additive for ethanol manufactured for industrial uses— this addition of a poison economically exempts industrial ethanol from the rather significant 'liquor' taxes that would otherwise be levied as it is the essence of all potable alcoholic beverages

....I think I need a drink after reading this.

[SC183]

Although now we mix ethanol with gasoline to make E85,so I wonder when the government will start charging the liquor tax on E85.

[wsmracing]

Confused..me too, isn't the ethanol, the same fuel thats mixed with the nitro..? If your on fire & inhaling all that.....couldn't that have something to do with it...or if the fuel was spraying on him....?a thorough report that still leaves questions unanswered..?

[SC183]

To simplify it we burn Methanol and we drink ethanol.

I thought mouth wash would also give you a false reading for alchol.

[Eric Merryfield]

Originally Posted by diceman1530

I thought mouth wash would also give you a false reading for alchol.

I sure hope they are careful with the info. Some medicines can make you have false positives....

[H.A.A.C. Racing]

This may sound stupid, but what about mouth wash, cough meds., anything stupid like that? I know around here(Conn.) The joke is if you were to go through a D.U.I. stop and you just used mouthwash, you would fail the breath test. (not bad breath, drunk breath). I hope before the media gets this one and drags Scott's name through the mud, there is some kind of investigation as to what it exactly is!