Toddler 'takes wheel' of pickup truck for drunken mother in US

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Press Trust of India Los Angeles
Last Updated : Oct 23 2015 | 6:02 PM IST
A woman in the US state of Oklahoma has been arrested after police say she drunkenly fell out of her pickup truck and her alert three-year-old son steered the vehicle to safety across a four-lane road.
Taloa Foster, 33, was charged with child endangerment after being suspected of drunken driving, the Pontotoc County District Attorney's office said.
Witnesses said the toddler grabbed the wheel and steered the truck across lanes of traffic after his mother fell from the vehicle on Wednesday.
The boy's twin brother was also in the truck at the time, US media reports said.
The vehicle eventually crashed into an embankment along the road near Ada, about 130 km southeast of Oklahoma City.
The boys were unhurt, police said.
Police said Foster told them that the boy had unbuckled his seat belt and she was trying to secure him when she fell out of the vehicle.

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First Published: Oct 23 2015 | 6:02 PM IST

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