Question juridique clé
Whether blood-test evasion should be treated like drunk driving for sentencing and conditional release purposes when post-accident evidence suggests the BAK came entirely from after-drink consumption.
Solution extraite
No. If the proven BAK at the relevant time is entirely attributable to post-accident drinking, there was no risk of conviction for drunk driving, so the evasion cannot be treated as a drunk-driving relapse for sentencing or suspended sentence purposes.
Motifs extraits
The equality rationale of aArt. 91 Abs. 3 SVG applies only where the driver, had the blood test been carried out properly, might have been convicted of drunk driving. The appellate court’s finding that the entire BAK derived from post-accident drinking excluded that risk.