Report says the mother left behind a seriously injured 9-year-old son after the accident

DALLAS – A Dallas woman and her relatives allegedly left her 9-year-old son behind when they fled the scene of a drunken accident earlier this week.

The accident occurred early Wednesday morning on Arden Road in southeast Oak Cliff.

Dallas police believe 39-year-old Monica Tutt was drunk and speeding when she struck two cars parked on the side of the road in front of homes.

According to an arrest warrant affidavit, several witnesses heard the accident and went outside to see what happened.

They told police that the driver tried to escape in her wrecked car, but it was too badly damaged.

“[The witness] yelled at the suspect to unlock the car while the suspect continued to scream and try to start the car again. “She stated that it was obvious that the suspect was intoxicated,” the affidavit states.

The witnesses said the driver’s sister arrived a few minutes later. She got into her sister’s driver’s seat, but her sister stopped her from driving away.

The two women then pulled an unconscious boy from the back seat of the wrecked car. They tried to load him into the sister’s car but were unsuccessful, the witnesses said.

At this point, Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedics had already arrived. But before they could speak to Tutt, the witnesses said her sister and another family member put them in their car and drove off, leaving the little boy behind.

Tutt’s 9-year-old son was hospitalized for a cut to his head so deep that his skull was visible. According to the affidavit, doctors said he also had air in his brain, a cerebral hemorrhage and a fractured skull.

Police identified and located Tutt based on her license plate and photos the witnesses took of her sister’s license plate.

They found her at her sister’s house and took her back to the scene of the accident for questioning.

Officers noticed “glassy/watery eyes and a strong odor of alcohol coming from her breath as she spoke,” the police document states.

“[Tutt] “I kept saying that her chance at a nursing career was over,” the affidavit states.[She] Throughout the interview she kept saying, “I did the same thing I always do” and “I want my son.”

Police said Tutt admitted to drinking that night but said she only had a few drinks.

The affidavit states she failed both a field sobriety test and a preliminary breathalyzer test.

She was taken to the hospital for a blood draw and then booked into the Dallas County Jail on charges of DUI and collision causing serious bodily injury.

At last check-up at the hospital, her son was found to be in critical condition.