My daughter was driving me to the paint store to get some kitchen color paint samples, when we came across a car crash. We were the third car to stop as it happened in front of us. I get out, and go twerking up to the car as fast as I can. I open the car door and check on the female driver, making sure she is ok. I look in the back seat and there are 3 little children
. I quickly opened the back doors to find a 9 month old, a 2 yo and an UNRESTRAINED 4 yo. The mother said she was up all night with the two little ones and was falling asleep at the wheel.
This mother seemed to be under the influence of something. She totaled her car. Kids seemed ok. Whoever called 911 failed to mention that kids were in the car, one was unrestrained. I am out there in the rain, directing traffic, waiting for the cops. Twenty minutes later I had someone call 911 again, telling them that there were 3 kids involved, one unrestrained. Cops and ambulance were there in 5 minutes.
I told the mother, no matter how tired she was, that car does not move without the children safely buckled in. The 4 yo did not have a car seat... I hope the cops made her go to the ER with the kids. I left as they were on scene and the ambulance arrived. I had the mother call her father, who was yelling at her on the phone, making her upset, while I was standing there. OMG. I truly don't understand people sometimes and the decisions they make. She was on a winding, hilly road, with lots of traffic. And falling asleep.
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