Four kids were sent to the hospital Tuesday after suffering injuries while riding on top of their mother's car, which she drove while drunk.
Kisha Young placed four children on the trunk of her Chevrolet Malibu and let two others ride on the hood as she drove home drunk from a swimming pool in Crowley, police told CBS Dallas-Fort Worth.
The mother rounded a corner at a high speed when the kids, ages 8 to 14, were thrown onto the street, witnesses told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.
Police said Young, 39, let the children ride on top of the car because they were wet after swimming in the Creekside Community Pool.
"They had wet clothing and apparently they didn't want to get the inside of the vehicle wet," Crowley Police Officer C.C. Meadows told CBS DFW.
Four of the children were treated at Cook Children's Hospital in Fort Worth but their injuries do not appear to be life threatening. All were later released except for a 12-year-old girl who was transported to another hospital due to a serious head wound, NBC DFW reported.
Young, who is the mother of five of the children, was arrested Tuesday on charges of intoxication assault. The toxicology results of a sobriety test Young took at the scene are still pending.
The mother was driving with another adult passenger, the mother of the 12-year-old, when the children flew from the trunk into the street. Witnesses ran into the road to try and help.
"She [the driver] didn't realize, I don't think, that they had fallen off," witness Stephanie Wywias told CBS DFW. "She had driven down a little father before I guess she realized they were off the car."
The 12-year-old reportedly suffered the worst from the fall.
"From what I saw I never saw her move," Holly Powell, who lives on the same road, told NBC DFW. "They had to do everything to get her on the stretcher and everything like that so it was really, really scary."
It is not yet known if the 12-year-old's mother will face charges for the incident.
In the meantime, Child Protective Services is to conduct an investigation.
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