A woman was arrested for DWI after being involved in an accident with her four children in the vehicle. The accident occurred in Cape Carteret on N.C. 24. Police believe the woman overcorrected her vehicle after driving left of center, which caused it to flip several times. The four children in the vehicle were all under the age of 5 and all of them were injured. Two of the children were critically injured as well as a passenger that was in the vehicle. The driver was not seriously injured.
The woman was charged with DWI and two counts of felony serious injury by motor vehicle. She has not yet gone to trial on the charges but was released on bond. Part of the condition of release for her bond was that she had to be under electronic monitoring. While she was out on bond she was arrested for shoplifting at Wal-Mart. As a result her bond as now been increased.
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