Drunken dad runs over 1-year-old son (Larose, Louisiana)

Dad DUDLEY PRIMEAUX III has been charged with 1st-degree vehicular injury (among other things) for allegedly running over his 1-year-old son while intoxicated.

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Child run over by allegedly drunken father
By Matthew Pleasant Staff Writer
Published: Friday, August 14, 2009 at 11:39 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, August 14, 2009 at 11:39 a.m.

LAROSE — A 1-year-old boy was injured Thursday afternoon after his allegedly drunken father ran over him as deputies tried to stop him for erratic driving, Lafourche Parish sheriff’s officials said.

Dudley Primeaux III, 25, 122 W. 169th St., Galliano, veered off La. 308 several times before turning onto East Sixth Street, said Chief Deputy Bud Dill.

Deputy Jamie McKinney spotted Primeaux and activated her lights, signaling him to stop, Dill said. Instead, Primeaux allegedly continued for two blocks, turned left turn into a driveway and struck his 1-year-old son, Dudley Primeaux IV, Dill said.

McKinney witnessed the impact, Dill said.

The father was arrested while officers rendered aid to the child, who was pinned beneath his father’s Buick.

The child was flown to Children’s Hospital in New Orleans and remains in “serious” condition, Dill said.

Primeaux refused to take an alcohol-breath test at the scene and failed a field-sobriety test administered outside the home, Dill said.

He also allegedly smelled of alcohol.

Blood was drawn from Primeaux at a Lafourche Parish hospital, which will be sent to the State Police for testing.

Primeaux is charged with first-degree vehicular injury, leaving the roadway, resisting an officer and driving while under the influence, deputies said.

He is being held at the Lafourche Parish jail, Dill said.

His bond had not been set this morning.