Child controls vehicle while driver sleeps at intersection

Heard on: Hampden MA Law Dispatch Group Calls

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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Supervising, we do have a pending call Orchard and Pond View.

00:03

Our report says there is a vehicle that is in park at the intersection, or not in park.

00:07

I apologize, lights are on, windshield wipers are going, and appears the wheels are spinning on the ground.

00:13

The driver appears to be asleep behind the wheel with a child in the car.

00:18

You can attach 400 and twenty-one and 414 to that call.

00:23

They'll be en route.

00:24

Dispatch, any update?

00:28

Yeah, my RP vehicle should still be there.

00:31

The child's moving in the front seat is possible, maybe they're controlling the wheels.

00:36

But it's a dark gray Kia Sorento.

00:41

Pretty safe, we'll be out.

00:44

Thank you.

00:47

421, dispatch, we'll be out at 130 with that vehicle.

9/3/2026 03:45 PM

Medical Emergency

Pondview Dr, Hampden, MA 01036

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As discussed during the dispatch call, officers responded to a report of a dark gray Kia Sorento stopped at the intersection of Orchard and Pond View with its lights and wipers on and wheels possibly spinning. The driver appeared to be asleep and a child in the front seat was possibly moving and controlling the steering wheel. Units were sent to check the occupied vehicle.