It has to be the most awful choice any teenager can make. Do you make a call to the police that might save lives, including your own? Or do you let your mother avoid being arrested. That was the choice Jamie S. Hicks’ 13-year-old daughter had to make. She chose properly, calling the police and getting her mother arrested for drunk driving from inside the car.
The teen girl was inside the car with her 10-year-old brother when she realized that her mother was too drunk to drive. The 48-year-old, behind the wheel of a 1995 Buick LeSabre, was driving aggressively and weaving in and out of traffic, so she did what she had to do and made a call in to 911. When troopers from the New York State Police found the vehicle, it was pulled off to the side of I-84, near the Connecticut border. The elder Hicks was given a field sobriety test (she failed) and a blood alcohol screening (she failed bigtime), where it was discovered she had a BAC over twice the legal limit, with a reading of 0.18 percent.
“She was a terrified young girl who made a conscientious decision to get her mother arrested,” said Cpt. Robert Nuzzo of the NYSP, “but it averted a tragedy.”
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