Mom was nearly 5 times legal limit when she drunkenly crashed car with 3 kids — and wine bottles — inside: police
An incoherent New Jersey mom was allegedly caught on police bodycam video slurring her words after she drunkenly plowed into a truck with her three young daughters — and open bottles of wine — in her SUV.
Megan Fackler, who admitted to working for the Garden State’s Department of Transportation, was arrested over the alleged drunken ordeal in Ewing Township, N.J., last October, newly released footage shows.
The mother had allegedly drifted into incoming traffic and crashed her 2020 Chevrolet Traverse into the truck after taking her kids — aged 8, 7, and 4 years — to dinner on Oct. 5, according to a police report.
The body cam video captured Fackler repeatedly slurring and rambling away as cops tried to deal with the ordeal.
Fackler denied that she’d had any alcohol in the lead up to the collision.
“Sorry, I’m a little out of sorts right now,” she rambled at the beginning of the hour-long clip.
“Can you not get mad at me? I’m sorry about this,” she later sobbed, adding: “Please don’t arrest me.”
When an officer eventually asked her to get out of her car, Fackler was filmed telling him: “I work for the DOT, I understand how this works.”
At one point, she blamed her alleged mental state on a recent divorce and admitted she had “no balance.”
Police said multiple open bottles of wine were later found stashed in the car, which the mom claimed in the clip were “weeks old.”
Fackler subsequently failed multiple field sobriety exercises and later blew 0.371% — nearly five times the legal limit, cops said.
A BAC between 0.30% and 0.40% can render a person unconscious and leave them with alcohol poisoning.
A 140-pound woman would have to down 10 alcoholic drinks to register a .38% BAC.
Fackler was criminally charged with three counts of endangering the welfare of a child in the wake of the incident, court records show.
She was also slapped with several citations, according to the video — including operating under the influence and reckless driving.
The Ewing Township Police didn’t immediately respond to The Post regarding the bodycam video.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Fackler was still employed by the DOT, but posts on LinkedIn indicated she once worked as a director of statewide planning.
The Post reached out to the DOT as well but didn’t hear back immediately.
Fackler couldn’t be reached for comment.
Additional reporting by Anthony Locicero
