{"id":161837,"date":"2015-10-24T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=161837"},"modified":"2015-10-24T06:24:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T06:24:31","slug":"oklahoma-toddler-takes-wheel-for-drunken-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/oklahoma-toddler-takes-wheel-for-drunken-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma toddler ‘takes wheel for drunken mother’"},"content":{"rendered":"
An Oklahoma woman has been arrested after police say she drunkenly fell out of her pickup truck and her three-year-old son steered the vehicle to safety across a four-lane road.<\/p>\n
Taloa Foster, 33, was charged with child endangerment.<\/p>\n
Witnesses said the toddler grabbed the wheel and steered the truck across lanes of traffic after his mother fell from the vehicle on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The boy’s twin brother was also in the truck at the time.<\/p>\n
The vehicle eventually crashed into an embankment along the road near Ada, about 80 miles (130km) southeast of Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n
The boys were unhurt, police said.<\/p>\n
Police said Ms 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.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An Oklahoma woman has been arrested after police say she drunkenly fell out of her pickup truck and her three-year-old son steered the vehicle to safety across a four-lane road. Taloa Foster, 33, was charged with child endangerment. Witnesses said the toddler grabbed the wheel and steered the truck across lanes of traffic after his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":161838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[7],"yoast_head":"\n