A Wisconsin mother is being accused of placing her 12-year-old daughter behind the wheel of a car while she was drunk.
A video was released in the case, and it was obtained by WITI and other local news outlets.
“It just blew my mind. Speechless,” said Nathan Tietz, who was in the passenger seat while his wife was driving northbound into Sheboygan County on I-43 on March 18, when he spotted an unusual scene unfolding next to him, Fox6 Now reported.
The woman can be seen driving on I-43 and isn’t even looking at the road.
“She is driving all over the place. Passing us. Driving in front of us. What are you doing? Look at the road. Look where you are going,” said Tietz.
Amanda Hauke, 41, was in the driver’s seat and had her eyes off the road for significant periods of time.
“I’ve never seen anything like that before. We look over and there is a child sitting in the front seat with her mom and the child is steering the car all over the place,” said Tietz.
In the video, Hauke can allegedly be seen pointing her phone’s camera at Tietz’s vehicle.
Dashcam footage obtained by local news outlets showed Hauke’s arrest. She took a breathalyzer test, blowing a .126---well over the .08 percent blood alcohol concentration legal limit in all 50 states.
“I’m glad we did something when we did because it could have ended badly,” said Tietz.
The Sheboygan County district attorney told Fox6 that his video was crucial in bringing Hauke to justice. She now faces felony charges.
“And even if these people had been wrong, even if there was nothing here, just reporting it so someone could check it out if we have communities come together to enforce what’s right and wrong all communities are better and we’re all safer,” District Attorney Joel Urmanksi said, TMJ4 reported.
“It was a pretty intense ending to the day---to an already exciting day,” said Tietz.
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