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After a Brooklyn man fell unconscious from an opioid overdose while driving his Lexus in Brooklyn, his desperate 7-year-old daughter climbed onto his lap and commandeered the vehicle, police sources said Friday.
A pair of astonished EMS workers spotted her as she was about to drive onto the busy Belt Parkway about 5 p.m. Thursday. The medics had just dropped off a patient at Coney Island Hospital when they saw the luxury car cruise by their ambulance on Ocean Ave. near Nixon Court.
“One turned to the other and said, ‘Is that a kid driving that car?’” a law enforcement source said.
The girl was sitting on her passed-out father’s lap, operating the vehicle. After she drove through a red light as she approached the Belt Parkway, the medics got in front of her hit the ambulance’s brakes. The slow-moving Lexus rear-ended the ambulance and came to a stop.
Realizing that the child’s father was suffering from an opioid overdose, the medics administered Naloxone and revived him.
Eric Roman, 37, was taken to an area hospital, where he remained Friday. The child was not harmed during the ordeal, police said.
Cops charged him with reckless endangerment, acting in a manner injurious to a child and driving a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...ar-old-daughter-takes-wheel-article-1.3345741
A pair of astonished EMS workers spotted her as she was about to drive onto the busy Belt Parkway about 5 p.m. Thursday. The medics had just dropped off a patient at Coney Island Hospital when they saw the luxury car cruise by their ambulance on Ocean Ave. near Nixon Court.
“One turned to the other and said, ‘Is that a kid driving that car?’” a law enforcement source said.
The girl was sitting on her passed-out father’s lap, operating the vehicle. After she drove through a red light as she approached the Belt Parkway, the medics got in front of her hit the ambulance’s brakes. The slow-moving Lexus rear-ended the ambulance and came to a stop.
Realizing that the child’s father was suffering from an opioid overdose, the medics administered Naloxone and revived him.
Eric Roman, 37, was taken to an area hospital, where he remained Friday. The child was not harmed during the ordeal, police said.
Cops charged him with reckless endangerment, acting in a manner injurious to a child and driving a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...ar-old-daughter-takes-wheel-article-1.3345741