A Long Island mom who was driving drunk lost control of her car then smashed into a tree — injuring her two small children, who were not wearing seatbelts, authorities said.
Laquita Brooks, 39, drunkenly piled her seven-year-old daughter and five-year-old son into the back seat of her Mercury Mystique then hit the gas in Huntington on Thursday at around 10:50 p.m., Suffolk County police said in a press release.
She lost control of the car, struck a sign post and a tree near Dix Hills Road and Dellwood Drive, sending her kids flying, police said.
Brooks’ daughter suffered a serious head injury. Her son suffered a minor head injury.
Both kids were transported to Huntington Hospital by Huntington Community First Aid Squad. They were later taken to Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park.
Suffolk County Police charged Brooks with aggravated driving while intoxicated with a child, driving while intoxicated and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child. She was scheduled to be arraigned Friday.