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<h6><span style="color:#1a0606;"><strong>Overdosing Brooklyn man’s 7-year-old daughter takes the wheel after he falls unconscious</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#1a0606;"><strong>Eric Roman, a father of two was in the car with his daughter when he succumbed to the numbing effects of an opioid overdose</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#1a0606;"><strong>The 7-year-old unbuckled her self ftom the back seat, sat on her fathers laps and steered the car</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#1a0606;"><strong>After she drove through a red light as she approached the Parkway, the medics pulled the ambulance in front of the car to help the child stop</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#1a0606;"><strong>“When we asked her what happened, she said ‘My dad was sleeping so I was going to finish driving him home,’ ” </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#1a0606;"><strong> Roman, 37, remained hospitalized Friday, one day after two FDNY Emergency Medical Technicians spotted his small child steering the car during rush hour, Thursday</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#1a0606;"><strong>He was arraigned in Brooklyn court Friday on charges of reckless endangerment, acting in a manner injurious to a child and driving while impaired by drugs</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-218499" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/the-girl-was-sitting-on-her-passed-out-father_s-lap-operating-the-vehicle-after-she-drove-through-a-red-light-as-she-approached-the-belt-parkway.jpg" alt="The girl was sitting on her passed-out father’s lap, operating the vehicle. After she drove through a red light as she approached the Belt Parkway.jpg" width="1200" height="737" />The girl was sitting on her passed-out father’s lap, operating the vehicle in rush hour traffic.</h6>
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<article id="ra-body">The 7-year-old daughter of a drug-addled New Yorker climbed into his lap and steered their Lexus to safety after his opioid overdose while behind the wheel, police sources said Friday.<br />
Eric Roman, 37, remained hospitalized Friday, a day after two startled FDNY Emergency Medical Technicians spotted the little girl steering the car along a side road toward the busy Belt Parkway during rush hour on Thursday.<br />
“We turned with the car and saw this little girl behind the wheel,” said EMT Arlene Garcia, a mother of three: “I’m a mom, so I was freaking out. I started yelling at her to pull over and stop the car.”</p>
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<p>The diminutive driver seemed small for her age, Garcia said.<br />
“There’s no way her feet could reach the pedals. We were turning with her, telling her to pull over, waving our arms wildly at her, but she wasn’t pulling over.”</p>
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<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-218495" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ems-medic-arlene-garcia-l-and-fdny-emt-charles-zimring.jpg" alt="EMS medic Arlene Garcia (l.) and FDNY EMT Charles Zimring.jpg" width="1200" height="1190" />EMTs Arlene Garcia (l.) and Charles Zimring, helped the 7-year-old daughter of Eric Roman stop the car.</strong></h6>
<p>As the child kept a snail’s pace, the first responders came up with a plan.<br />
“We said to ourselves, ‘How do you stop her?’ So we pulled right in front of her with the ambulance and that’s how we stopped it,” Garcia explained.<br />
The slow-moving Lexus smacked the truck’s back bumper and came to a stop.<br />
Garcia and her partner EMT Charles Zimring found a disturbing scene in the luxury vehicle.<br />
“When we asked her what happened, she said ‘My dad was sleeping so I was going to finish driving him home,’ ” Garcia explained.</p>
<h6 class="ra-caption"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-218517" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fdny-emergency-medical-technicians-spotted-the-small-child-steering-the-car-on-ocean-ave-toward-the-busy-belt-parkway-during-rush-hour-on-thursday.jpg" alt="FDNY Emergency Medical Technicians spotted the small child steering the car on Ocean Ave. toward the busy Belt Parkway during rush hour on Thursday..jpg" width="1200" height="800" /><strong>FDNY Emergency Medical Technicians spotted the small child steering the car on a side road toward the busy Beltway during rush hour on Thursday.</strong></h6>
<p>The quick thinking kid told the medics that she was in the back seat when her doped-up dad passed out.<br />
So she unbuckled herself and took the wheel.<br />
“She wasn’t scared at all. She was so great,” Garcia said. “All she was worried about was getting grounded for driving without permission.”<br />
Police sources said first responders brought Roman back with a life-saving dose of the opioid antidote Naloxone.<br />
He was taken to a Brooklyn hospital for treatment.<br />
A relative who answered the door at the Roman home Friday declined to comment on the incident: “I’ve got nothing to say,” the man said before closing the door.<br />
Roman was due for arraignment in Brooklyn court Friday on charges of reckless endangerment, acting in a manner injurious to a child and driving while impaired by drugs.<br />
Neighbors said the 7-year-old is the older of Roman’s two daughters, and expressed surprise about his alleged drug use.<br />
“He seems very family-oriented. He’s a very nice guy,” said Brian Zheng, 39. He said Roman was complaining of tennis elbow, and his arm was in a sling last month.<br />
“Probably he hurts very much,” Zheng said.<br />
EMTs Garcia and Zimring were heralded for their efforts by their peers.</p>
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