Nassau Drunken Driver Flees Crash, Found With Baby In Car: Cops

WANTAGH, NY — An Amityville woman has been arrested after police say she drove drunk in Wantagh with her 4-month-old kid in the car and left a crash site.

Police officers received a report around 7:30 p.m. Thursday that a child was inside a car with a drunken driver. They found the 2002 black Honda Accord near a Ride Aid on Merrick Road in Massapequa Park.

The driver, identified by police as Margareth Mendoza, 36, of Offaly Street, was heading west on Sunrise Highway when police saw her fail to signal at the intersection of Beech Street in Wantagh. When officers activated their emergency lights and pulled her over, they noticed her eyes were glassy and bloodshot. The driver was also slurring her words and her breath smelled like alcohol, police said.

Her child was in the vehicle at the time and has been placed into the custody of a family member.

Mendoza had been involved in a crash with a 2015 Toyota Camry and drove off, investigators said. The driver and passenger in the other car were not hurt.

Mendoza was arrested and charged with DWI, aggravated DWI with a child under 16 under Leandra's Law, endangering the welfare of a child and multiple traffic violations.

She was expected in court Friday in Hempstead.