
For the second time this month, authorities have charged a father with allowing his 9-year-old child to be a designated driver.
Nathan Walter Sikkenga, 31, of Gillette, Wyo., told troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol in Orlando on Saturday that he and his wife “were under the influence of alcohol” and instructed their son to drive the van, according to an arrest report released Tuesday.
The van crashed into a security gate arm bar. An Orange County Sheriff’s deputy who witnessed the crash told responding troopers that a child was behind the wheel and the father was sitting in the front passenger seat, the report states.
Sikkenga was charged with felony child endangerment. No current telephone listing could be found for Sikkenga and it wasn’t immediately known if he had an attorney. He was let out on bond and had asked for his lawyer when police read him his Miranda rights. The police report did not indicate why the father was charged and not the mother.
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