Liam Payne's blood alcohol level was three times the US legal driving limit at the time of his death.The former One Direction star died in October after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina.
A new statement issued by the by the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor's Office No. 14 has now revealed a toxicology test determined Liam's blood had high levels of alcohol which would have left him severely impaired.The statement read: "The autopsy revealed that the death was caused by multiple trauma and internal and external bleeding.
It was also determined that the musician had alcohol concentrations of up to 2.7 grams per liter in blood at the time of death, plus cocaine metabolites, methylecgonine, benzoylecgomine, cocaethylene and the medication sertraline." It had previously been revealed Liam's blood showed traces of cocaine as well as a prescription anti-depressant.
A blood alcohol level of .27 per cent is more than than three times the United States' legal driving limit, which is .08 per cent, reports the Mirror.
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