Kids Text 911 from Back Seat of Car as Dad Allegedly Drives Drunk

Kids Text 911 from Back Seat of Car as Dad Allegedly Drives Drunk

Two quick-thinking Nebraska accouchement may accept adored their own lives and endless others if they texted 911 to stop their ancestor from allegedly active bashed in a rental car.

Mackenzie and Ethan Behrens, 14 and 12, had boarded on a alley cruise from Kearney to Colorado with their father, 44-year-old Jason Behrens, if they began sending letters to 911 allurement for advice on March 25.

“We told him abounding times, we don’t wish to go anymore because you are absolutely bashed and I don’t wish to die,” Mackenzie told NTV News.

Allegedly blank his children’s pleas for him to stop the car, the ancestor connected on what would be a seven-hour drive, swerving as he drove.

“The next time he swerves, forward the text,” Ethan said he told his sister.

“And he swerved afresh so I pushed send,” she added.

The brace announced with a 911 abettor as their ancestor drove, anecdotic businesses they saw so badge could acquisition them, a ancestors acquaintance wrote on a GoFundMe page created for the family.

They assertive their father—who allegedly insisted he wasn’t drunk—to cull over at a Burger King so admiral could bolt up to the car afore it alloyed assimilate the interstate.

When cops assuredly bent up to the family, they had Behrens yield a breathalyzer test. His claret booze agreeable was 0.224%, about three times the acknowledged limit, badge said.

He was arrested and answerable with DUI, his additional offense, and two counts of active beneath the access with a commuter beneath 16, admiral said.

He is due cloister for his allegation on April 27.

Burger King advisers gave the accouchement aliment while they waited for their mother to aces them up, the ancestors acquaintance said.

The ancestors said this was not the aboriginal time their ancestor collection afterwards drinking, but added abutting calls fabricated them apprehend they bare help.

Authorities commended the ancestors for their courage and quick thinking.

“It’s a acceptable affair they did (text),” Capt. Michael Kirkwood with the Kearney Badge Department told InsideEditon.com. “There’s a acceptable adventitious he would accept gotten into a wreck.”

According to the GoFundMe page, the children's mother is aggravating to accretion sole aegis of her son and daughter.

Starting endure year, Buffalo County, Nebraska fabricated it accessible for those in charge to argument 911.

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