In more than 20 years of law enforcement work, Sgt. Eric East said he’s never seen someone with this high a blood alcohol content.

Officers with the Springfield Township Police Department in Ohio picked up Ernest Primarano Jr. on the evening of Jan. 8. Their body camera footage showed them trying to rouse Primarano after cautiously putting his car in park. The 56-year-old was slumped over in his Honda Civic with his foot on the brake, the car still in drive. Two bottles of vodka — one of them empty — were in the car.

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“The door was opened up cautiously, so as to not startle him because then we could have had another disaster on our hands, but we went ahead and put the vehicle into park,” East told News 5, the ABC affiliate in Cleveland.

Officers initially thought the man had suffered a medical condition. But a blood alcohol level test showed he was at .455 — almost six times the legal limit.

Primarano is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday, to be charged with operating a vehicle under the influence. Substance abuse charts indicate four drinks in an hour would typically put a man his size — 180 pounds — over the limit, News 5 reported. Fifteen drinks over the same time period could result in a blood alcohol content three times the limit.

People don’t normally survive that sort of intoxication, according to East. Primarano and anyone else in his path were lucky to have made it through that night.