Drunk mother falls out of truck, 3-year-old steers vehicle to safety

Los Angeles: A 33-year-old woman has been arrested after she fell out of her pickup truck in a drunken state and her three-year-old son steered the vehicle to safety across a four-lane road in the US state of Oklahoma, said police.

Taloa Foster, 33, was charged with child endangerment after being suspected of drunken driving, the Pontotoc County District Attorney's office said.

Witnesses said the child grabbed the wheel and steered the truck across lanes of traffic after his mother fell off the vehicle on Wednesday.

The boy's twin brother was also in the truck at the time, US media reports said.

The vehicle eventually crashed into an embankment along the road near Ada, about 130 km southeast of Oklahoma City.

Both the children were safe, police said. Ms Foster told them that the boy had unbuckled his seat belt and she was trying to secure him when she fell out of the vehicle, added the police.