Heroic 3-Year-Old Boy Drove His Mother's Car To Safety After She Fell Off The Vehicle
By Okechukwu Okugo
On 21st October, 2015, Taloa Foster, a 33-year-old woman from Ada driving probably under the influence, fell out of her truck on Wednesday morning at about 8:45 a.m. along state Highway
1, east of Ada, Oklahoma.
But fortunately, one of her twin boys in the vehicle bounced into action, taking
possession of the driver's seat, he drove the car a considerable distance before steering off the Highway
and crashing the car to a stop on a curb, safely.
Eyewitnesses reported what happened and called Ada firefighters,
Mercy EMS, Oklahoma Highway Patrol and Pontotoc's County Sheriff's deputies to
the scene.
The hero-boy and his twin brother were unhurt.
The mother reportedly told authorities that she fell off the
vehicle when one of his boys unbuckled his seat belt and she was trying to
buckle it back. But troopers found a nearly empty bottle of liquor in the
pickup. Fortunately, she was not reportedly hurt as a result of the fall.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers, Keith Teel, left and Brian Bagwell arrest a woman on suspicion of DUI Wednesday morning after she allegedly fell out of the pickup and one of her 3-year-old children drove the vehicle until it crashed into a curb. OHP Trooper Rob Benedict and Pontotoc County Sheriff's Deputy Brandon Hurley are also pictured.
Photo by Randy Mitchell
The Pontotoc County District Attorney charged her on two counts of child endangerment and driving under the influence of alcohol. No lawyer was
listed on her online arrest reports.
The boys as at today are now safe in the custody of their grandfather.
(Material from The Ada News was used in preparing this report. Pictured above in this article are Ada firefighter Justen McCoy and Mercy EMS Paramedic Tanner Byrd carrying the hero-child driver after he drove his mother's car a considerable distance before steering off the Highway and crashing the vehicle into a curb, Wednesday morning. His twin brother not pictured here was still inside the car. Photo by Randy Mitchell.)
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