Boy refuses to ride with drinking parents

A Pennsylvania couple have been charged with drunken driving after their 10-year-old son refused to ride with them, fearing for his safety.

Kenneth Sutton, 41, and his wife, Paula, 40, of Monaca, Pa., were charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or controlled substances and with child endangerment.

The case caught police attention after a motorist saw the couple in their two vehicles stopped on a highway and their son leaving the scene.

The unidentified boy told police his father had been drinking and was trying to light a pipe containing marijuana when he crashed into a guard rail.

The boy's mother, who had been travelling in a car in front of them, tried to get the boy to ride with her, but he refused because she too had been drinking.