Earlier this year a video of a truck driver allowing his 12-year-old son to drive a semi truck went viral, amassing millions of views and sparking outrage among many social media users.
The mother of the child, Tammy Hauenschild, recently spoke to Fox-4 news about the incident.
In the interview, she explains that her ex-husband took their 12-year-old son along in his big rig, and allowed him to drive his Peterbilt truck while he watched from the passenger seat. She says watching the video on the internet made her “boiling mad” and called it an “accident waiting to happen”.
As a professional truck driver herself, she said she knows what it takes to drive — and stop — a semi truck, and believes that her son’s father put everyone at risk by allowing him to get behind the wheel.
“My son has no clue. He could lose control. He could hit someone else out there — a little baby? A mom? Anyone out there on the road.” she said.
She also said that she believes her husband has allowed her son to do it in the past and even called the police to report it, however they refused to intervene because they deemed it a domestic dispute rather than a public safety concern.