Man arrested for letting 10-year-old drive his car

EDGEWOOD, Ind. – A man faces charges that he was drunk when he allowed his 10-year-old son to sit in his lap and drive his truck just before it plowed into a tree.\nPolice said Anthony T. Russell, 35, had a blood-alcohol content of 0.19 percent – more than twice the state’s legal limit to drive of 0.08 percent – when the truck crashed Saturday.\nAfter the crash, the boy was taken to an Anderson hospital and was found to have a broken rib.\nThe force of the truck’s impact into the tree was strong enough to break off the pickup truck’s steering wheel, police said in a probable cause \naffidavit.\nRussell was formally charged Monday with two felony counts of driving while intoxicated, one count of felony neglect and a misdemeanor drunken driving charge. He was being held Tuesday in the Madison County Jail on a $5,000 bond.\nWhen police officers arrived at the scene of the one-vehicle crash in Edgewood, just west of Anderson, they found Russell and his son outside the truck.\nRussell told officers he’d let his son sit on his lap to steer the truck and that it crashed into a tree as they were coming down a hill.