Mom crashes with kids in car while driving with alcohol level 7x limit, Utah cops say

A mother driving with her three young children registered a blood alcohol content of more than seven times the legal limit, Utah police reported.

The woman hit a mailbox before driving away, Sandy police said in a Facebook post.

The 31-year-old woman was heading to a school parent-teacher conference when the crash took place, KSL reported, citing a police report. Officers reportedly found a whiskey bottle in her vehicle.

She left the broken-off bumper of her vehicle behind after striking the stone mailbox in the incident Monday, Feb. 24, police told KSTU. Her children, ages 8, 6 and 4, were in the vehicle.

Officers found her at her home, where a preliminary test found she had a blood alcohol content of 0.364%, police said. The legal limit to drive in Utah is 0.05%.

She was arrested on charges including drunken driving and hit-and-run, police said.

“Impaired driving endangers lives,” police said. “If you’re drinking, don’t drive — find a safe way home.”

Sandy is about a 20-mile drive southeast from Salt Lake City.

This story was originally published February 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM with the headline "Mom crashes with kids in car while driving with alcohol level 7x limit, Utah cops say."