Woman Charged With Driving On Drugs, Crashing With Baby: PD

BRENTWOOD, NY — A woman was arrested and charged on Sunday under Leandra’s Law, after she reportedly drove while impaired by drugs while her 4 month-old daughter was in her car, Suffolk County Police said.

Rachel Meyer, 28, of Huntington Station, was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated with a child passenger 15 years old or younger and endangering the welfare of a child, police said.

Meyer was driving a 2009 Subaru Forrester westbound on the Long Island Expressway near Brentwood at about 3:05 p.m., when she lost control of the vehicle and crashed it into the median near Exit 53, police said.

Highway patrol officers responded to the scene and found Meyer unconscious in the front seat of the vehicle, police said. Her daughter was in a child restraint seat in the back seat of the vehicle, police said.

Police determined that Meyer was under the influence of drugs, officials said.

Meyer and her daughter were taken to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore, police said, where they were evaluated and released, police said.

The two were then taken to the Fourth Precinct, police said, and the infant was later released to a family member.

Meyer was be held overnight at the Fourth Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Monday.