‘I know how this works’: Mom who crashed car carrying kids and ’empty wine bottles’ works for the state’s Department of Transportation, police say

A New Jersey ma who allegedly crashed her car portion driving drunk portion her kids were successful the car present faces aggregate felony charges.

Megan Fackler, 39, was caught connected bodycam by Ewing Township constabulary connected Oct. 5, 2024, aft officers responded to the country of a conveyance collision. Fackler was the operator of an SUV that allegedly collided with a container truck. When constabulary questioned her, she slurred her words and seemed confused arsenic to what absorption she had been driving.

Despite immoderate resistance, Fackler yet submitted to a tract sobriety test. She was aboriginal allegedly recovered to person a humor intoxicant level of .371, much than 4 times the ineligible limit.

In the newly released bodycam footage, which was obtained by Transparency Bodycam connected YouTube, Fackler tin beryllium heard telling officers, “I enactment for the DOT, I cognize however this works.”

According to reporting by WPVI, a section ABC affiliate based successful Philadelphia that covers parts of New Jersey, Fackler is listed arsenic an worker of New Jersey’s Department of Transportation. A root confirmed to the presumption that she is inactive employed there.

Throughout the brushwood with police, Fackler states that she is going done a divorcement and surviving with her brother. When constabulary constituent retired to her that determination are “empty vino bottles successful the back” of her vehicle, she attempted to explicate that they were “from weeks ago.”

WPVI obtained tribunal documents that stated that Fackler’s 3 children were taken to the infirmary pursuing the crash. At the opening of the bodycam video posted to Transparency Bodycam, 1 of the children, whose images were blurred out, told police, “We’re each okay, convey you” erstwhile asked if anyone was injured.

Fackler was administered a enactment trial astatine the constabulary presumption aft being taken into custody. She was charged with DUI, 3 counts of endangering the payment of a child, reckless driving, and different citations.

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