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Addict Shooting Heroin Behind The Wheel Plows Into Mobile Home

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A man high on heroin suffered an overdose behind the wheel in North Dakota Monday, plowing his car into a mobile home.

Lance Michael McClintock, a 26-year-old from Mandan, nodded off while driving with an unidentified women who told officers she suspected he used heroin before getting in the car. As McClintock fell unconscious he stepped on the gas peddle of the 2002 Isuzu and went hurtling into a mobile home occupied by two people, reports The Bismarck Tribune.

The residents of the home were not hurt according to police, who arrested McClintock at the scene after treating minor injuries. A man working in his yard witnessed the incident and said the vehicle nearly ran him over before the crash.

Another passenger of the vehicle, 20-year-old Anthony Evans, fled the scene of the crash but was subsequently arrested with four heroin baggies and a syringe at a gas station.

Authorities took McClintock to the Burleigh County Detention Center where he faces a number of felony charges including possession of heroin with intent to deliver and reckless endangerment. He later told police he was driving to the trailer park to buy heroin.

The incident is becoming a familiar one for law enforcement and first responders in states hit hard by opioid addiction. A couple using heroin behind the wheel of their vehicle forced officials to shut down Interstate-75 outside Cincinnati, Ohio, July 15 after colliding into a semi-truck.

A child was forced to take the wheel of a car after his father passed out while suffering a heroin overdose in Brooklyn, ultimately crashing into an ambulance July 20.

Researchers from Columbia University in New York City recently investigated more than two decades of data federal traffic data and found the opioid scourge is behind a 700 percent increase in traffic deaths.

Police say that, in many circumstances, addicts will shoot up wherever they are when they buy their drugs, which many times is in a vehicle.

“It’s a continuous circle to keep the drug in your system, and these people go to any length to get it,” Sergeant Michael Hudepohl with the Cincinnati Police Department, told FOX 19. “They get in their car, they use it, they OD, they crash and then we get involved.”

Drug overdoses are now the number one cause of accidental death for Americans under 50. The New York Times recently culled through data from state health departments and county medical examiners and coroners, predicting there were between 59,000 and 65,000 drug deaths in 2016.

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