‘MUM WON’T WAKE UP’
Sobbing girl, 12, calls 911 after mum overdoses on heroin while on highway with two kids and baby in car
A 12-YEAR-old girl dialled 911 in tears after her mum overdosed on heroin while on a highway with her three kids – including a baby – in the car.
Tiffany Smith, 28, was revived by paramedics and charged with child neglect after she lost consciousness behind the wheel.
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She had stopped her minivan on the side of the busy I-4 highway in Volusia County, Florida, when she passed out on Thursday night
Her sobbing daughter called 911, saying: “My mom won’t wake up and we’re on I-4 in the car.
"We're in the grass and we're close to a ditch...I don't know how to put it in park," she added.
Emergency services arrived at the around at 7pm and found Smith unconscious.
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Her other children, boys aged seven and one, were also in the minivan along with two dogs.
The mum was revived with a dose of Narcan, a spray used to treat overdoses, investigators said.
She told cops she was on her way to South Carolina with the three children when she started to experience back pain.
"She said she stopped to take some heroin for the pain,” the sheriff's office statement read.
When deputies asked her if heroin was something she should have taken for her back, Smith said it wasn't, but she ran out of pain medication and was "hurting".
Police bodycam footage shows the mum looking dazed as she was questioned by cops while in the back of an ambulance.
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Smith was listed in stable condition at AdventHealth Fish Memorial Hospital.
Her children were unharmed and were placed in the custody of their grandmother.
Animal control officials took her dogs, investigators added.