"This to me is much softer than saying he was more than 2.5 times the legal limit. Anyone else agree ?"
His reading was 63mg of alcohol per 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mg, so 1.8 times the limit. Of course his alleged disappearance from the scene would have consequently delayed the breath test and reduced the reading.
Speaking more generally, culpable drivers failing to stop when a person is injured or worse should be punished heavily - it seems to be at epidemic proportions. For instance, I recently saw a repeat of 'Motorway Cops' or a similar series where a cyclist was knocked down at night and killed on a dual carriageway in Essex. The driver did not report it until they arrived at their family home and claimed they thought they had hit a deer.
I subsequently googled the road in question to find more details and found no fewer than 3 cyclist fatalities & serious injuries in the last few years that were hit-and-runs.
Incidently, in the TV programme case, no further action was taken against the driver by the police/CPS. Apparently, the cyclist had alcohol in his system and there was no evidence he had lights.
Be careful out there, folks.