Oh, okay. All right. You good? Thank you, police officer. You're welcome. You'll be okay. I promise. All right. All right. I just got dropped off. Sir, what's up? Just turn one. Okay. I had one drink with my mother. On January 1st, 2024, law enforcement officers responded to an accident that occurred on New Year's Eve. The incident involved a mother rear ending another vehicle while driving with her four young children in the car. You okay? Yes, I'm okay. Okay. for Charlie. Charlie? Yeah, he's my son right here. His what? These two are having a hard time right now. Which one's Charlie? Right here in the middle. In the middle. Hey, Charlie. What's going on, man? Hurts. Yeah. Do you call somebody help? We need some help here. Yeah, we're here to help. Okay. Yeah. Do you guys have other family that lives in Athens? Yeah. My um my sister-in-law is coming down right now. She is okay. Can you take us home? Yeah, we'll get you home. Okay. What's your name? Alex. Alan. Alan. I mean, not Alex. Alan. No. Al X. Oh, Alex. Okay. Are you hurting anywhere? I heard the daddy. Okay, let me look at it. Can I see? Can you take your seatelt off? Uh, it's locked. It's locked. I cut mine off. There you got it. [Music] Don't touch me. I'm looking. Are you hurting anywhere else? No. Jump right here. Okay. Hey, I think you're going to be all right. Okay. I know it hurts, but it'll get it'll get better. Okay. Okay. I promise. I need cold water in my neck. I need cold water at the tow. All right. We'll see if we can help you. Okay. Okay. Give me just a minute. All right. 392 Central's EMS in route. 104. One vehicle has four children. Mom's got some some scrapes on his neck. You okay? What's your name? Bella. Bella. Hey, Bella. [Music] Are you Charlie? Charlie, are you hurting anywhere? Your neck and where? His neck is hurting. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Where does your sister live? My sister, she's literally down the road now. Okay. All right. Say what? Do you call somebody like Tia? He won't get jail. Yeah, she's coming. She's Your Tia's coming. Okay. Okay. All right. You're Thank you, police officer. You're welcome. You're going to be okay, man. Okay. You'll be okay. I promise. All right. All right. I'm sure you already told the other officer, but what can you tell me what happened? Um, well, the car break up in front of us at the light, and I tried to like swerve to not catch them, but I caught them anyways. Which car was it? That one right up there. There's two over there. The one in the grass or you know? No. Okay. It was a red. Okay. Everything happened really quickly. Where are y'all coming from? My sister-in-law's house down the street. Where? What's the address? And where are you heading right now? Home. Home? Yeah. Where's home? Get them home before like we stayed for midnight and then we were just trying to go. Yeah. Where's home for y'all? Um over there. Okay. Did you get the other officer get your ID? Yeah. Okay. Does your sister have like enough uh seats and stuff for all of them? Okay. I'm just going to close this so it's a little bit warmer in there. Okay. Do you have blankets or anything you can put on them? I was just trying to air out the airbags. Yeah. Do you have blankets or anything you can put on them? Yeah. Okay. And if you need to take the baby out or something, you can get hit. Yeah, we're we're blocking for you. I literally just got his car everything up. While waiting for backup to arrive and perform sobriety fields, the father of the children showed up and was not happy. How are you related, sir? Sir, this is my significant other. Yeah. Okay. Happest kids father. Okay. Where are you parked, man? What's up? Where are you parked? Where am I parked? No worse. I just got dropped off. Sir, what's up? Okay. All right. We're trying to get the kids out of here unless they're going to the hospital. Damn. Are y'all? Everyone's okay. What the happened, man? [Music] Hey, what's going on? Hey. Um, so she is in pretty significant rear end. Um, she has four kids with her. A couple of them just have scrapes on their neck from the seat belt. Um, I don't know if there's anything more significant with that, but that's the only complaints, but Okay. Um, the kid in the front seat and the kid in the back middle seat. Okay. Cool. What's up with that car? Who hits? Um, I don't know there's any complaints from them yet. I haven't talked to them. Are there any uh complaints of injuries down there? No. Ma'am, what's your name? Uh, Faith. Faith. Okay. Can you pop the trunk again so we can put a jacket on him? Unless you have one in the car for the little one over there. Um, he actually has a jacket in. He does. Yeah. Okay. Put your jacket on. Yeah, I'm calm, but what happened, man? All you need to do is talk to police. I don't Was there anything besides the seat belt scrapes? No, not on. He's complaining a little bit of like front neck pain. He's got a toy in his hand. He said he came back down toy and hit him right there. And he said he his kneecap on there, but his kneecap feels fine. And I ain't see anything. Okay. So, I was just waiting for him to get out so I could lift up his pants and look at his knee. Okay. He seems like he's walking. Okay. I just want to make sure there wasn't anything more significant. How old is she? She just turned one. Okay. This one right here. Yeah. She's one. She's just really tiny. Oh, wow. The EMTs were nice enough to give the four kids and dad a ride to his car that he parked in a nearby parking lot. Now, it's time for officers to conduct a field sobriety test on the mother. And then he freaked out and then got them freaked out again. Yeah, I don't understand. He freaks out. Hello. What's up? I don't smell anything. She's very Yeah, she's very awkwardly relaxed for somebody who was in this crash and her kids are all scared or anything. Um, the ambulance just rode them over there. Hello. Hi. You hear from Amy? Well, we have Amy Hopper. Can you tell me what happened out here? the heart break and I tried to swerve but I still caught them so I just Okay. So you rear ended them hot. I was air break down and then the everything locked up on me. So Okay. Have you had anything to drink tonight? No, nothing. Do you take any prescriptions? Any medicine? Anxiety medicine? Yeah. And a depression medicine. Okay. So I really don't. Did you take those today? coming. Have you taken them today or this morning or whatever? No, I'm not. All right. You haven't had any alcohol? We just I was trying to get home. Why? What happened? I don't really do crows and I lost my dad around this time. Okay. So, I went as a family obligation, but I really just wanted to go home. Okay. Was there anybody with you? Um, there's my kids. You have your kids with you? Yeah, I had all my kids. How many are they? All four of my kids with me. Oh, are they in here right now? No, they're actually getting took them home by my sister-in-law. Were they all buckled in and everything? How old are they? I have a one-year-old 8-year-old. I'm not Oh, okay. You smoke marijuana? I don't. You don't. Do you use any other kind of uh narcotics or anything? No. Do you mind running through some tests real quick? Make sure you're all good and then I'll get you out of here with your kids. Car isn't as big as I wanted to. I used to have a Honda Pilot, but that one went into the shop this week, so I had to get this one. Oh, okay. And then this one's been having issues, so that's great. It's got one big issue up there at the front right now. Yeah. Wonderful. All right. So, I just want to run through a couple tests real quick and just make sure you're good to drive. Good to go home and go be back with your kids. Okay. You wear glasses, contacts, anything? I wear glasses, but you don't have them on now, so you're good, right? I don't. Okay. Um my broke my glasses this week. Oh, did they? Do you have any medical issues? Any concussions or anything like that? Get the airbag, I guess. Okay. All right. So, all I want you to do is just follow the tip of my pen. Can you do that? So, put your feet together and put your hands down to your side. All right. I just want Can you see the tip of my pen right here? Mhm. All right. All right. So, you can just follow that and don't move your head. Just move your eyes. Okay. Don't move your head. Sorry. My airbag kind of dust is in my eyes. Your airbag what? The airbag dust kind of got in my eyes. Okay. It's okay. Just do it best the best you can. Okay. Yeah. All right, last one. Just keep following it up here. Follow the pen. Watch. Sorry. It's okay. Follow the pen. It's the light is messing up the dust. All right. So, one more test. You have any issues with your legs? You able to do You're able to walk? Step my ankle out. This is coming for the should be fine. Okay. Yeah, I think that'll be fine. So, what I'm going to have you do is I'm going to have you start this test like this. Put your right foot in front of your left foot, heel to toe and put your hands to your side and just hold it like that. Pretend like there's an imaginary line right here and you're going to walk nine heel to toe steps down. Oh, I'll tell you when to stop. Go back. There you go. So, you're going to walk nine heel to toe steps down. And on your ninth step, you're going to stop it and you're going to take a series of small steps, turn around and take nine heels to heel toe steps back. It's going to go like this. Nine forward. I'm going to I'm going to demonstrate. Watch. 1 2 3 4 1 2 3. And I want you to watch your feet. Count out loud and don't stop until you get all the way back to the start. Okay. Another test. My ankle's not that Well, let's just try it real quick and then we'll see. All right. You're good to go whenever you want. I really can't put it first. It's okay. You want to start over? No, I don't think I You don't want to do it. Okay. Which ankle is it? It's honestly this one. The one that hurts. Yeah. Okay. Like able to do that. I do maintenance work. That's a steel pipe that goes into the ground and it was too heavy and I threw it off and then when I tried to get back up I rolled my ankle real bad. Okay. Is there another test? Yeah, I'll have you do another test. You mind doing another test? All right. So, this is what you're going to do. Put your feet together, hands to your side. What you're going to do is you're going to lift up the you're going to lift up your bad ankle and you're going to lift it six inches off the ground and you're going to keep it parallel to the ground. How long? How far is 6 in? example. Uh just picture like six inches. I'm sorry. I have anxiety over thinking anything. It's okay. You don't have to worry about We're not We don't have to worry about anything out here. We're just making sure you're good to drive. Okay. So, you're going to uh lift it 6 in off the ground. You keep it parallel to the ground and you're going to count 1,00 1,00200 3 all the way until I tell you to stop. Keep looking at your feet and count out loud. Okay? It's going to go like this. You can start whenever you want. I can't say you said lift a bad one, right? Lift a bad one. Yeah. 100200165. Okay. 2067 work. Probably busy. If you'll call in and be connected, that'll be good. 1 13 1 14 2015 15 You're good. I'm going end up hurting myself and I don't want to hurt myself. No, I don't want you to hurt yourself. All right. So, if you turn around and face that officer right there, put your hands around your back. Stay back. [Music] But when I just drove by No, man. It's not just because of that. Here, let's walk over to my car for me. Come over here. This way. Here, get him. I'll get Hold on a second. Will you get it? We'll get it. We'll get it. Do you have anything on you that you don't want or you shouldn't have? I just want to give him my keys. Your keys? Okay, we'll give them to him. Do you have anything else on you? Can you Do you guys have a female officer? Yeah. Do you have anything on you? Anything in your bra or anything like that? No. Okay. Um, so you just want these keys to go? Yeah, I just want to give him my keys. Okay, you can come grab the keys. You clear? No. Do you want Do you want your phone to go with you or would you like to give that to someone? You want to get my phone? Do you have any money? I got your ID. Do you have your Do you have a wallet or anything? Sir, sir, sir. No, we're not You're not searching her. Okay. Do you have anything that you don't that you don't want to take with you? You want him to take? I don't have anything. Okay. Do you have anything illegal on you right now? No. Do you have any weapons? Just so that we're watch what I'm doing. I ain't doing nothing but getting Give me one second. Go ahead. All right. You over 21? Okay. I'm sorry. What did you say? I have alcohol over my pants, but it's not my fault. My sister-in-law dumped it all over. What kind of alcohol was it? She jumped Gloria's margarita mix. Margarita mix. Okay, hold on. Let me read this to you. You have the right with these rights in mind. Do you wish to speak to me? I'd rather just there no sobriety test that I can test that before. That's what I'm about to ask you. I have to read this to you before I can talk to you about any of that stuff. Okay. So, will you you'll talk to me? I don't have a problem talking. Okay. Based on the test that I just did, I can tell that you're under the influence of something. How much did you have to drink tonight? How many margaritas? I had one drink with my mother. You haven't taken any other narcotics or any other drugs? Okay. I been arresting ever. Okay, that's okay. Well, we're going to figure all that out right now. Okay. Do you mind doing a blood test? I don't. You don't mind? Okay, we'll go get that taken care of right now. Okay. All right. Hangs tight. Don't stress. Don't be like I'm not here for you. I am I'm here for you. All right. We're going to take off. Take a minute. Okay. I love you. Okay. I love you. Don't trip. Okay. Love you. Bye, baby. I love you. This is what's going on. You're getting charged with DUI for you being DUI. You're also getting a charge for DUI for each child that was in the car, too. So, that's a total of five DUIs, plus you're getting following too close, which is what caused the wreck. Okay. So that's what happens when you have the children in the car with you. You know that you put them at risk tonight, right? As always, check the pin comments for updates. The suspect was booked for DUI less safe. Four counts of DUI endangering a child under 14 years old and following too closely.