CNN(CNN) - A 12-year-old girl called police after her mother passed out from a heroin overdose on the side of the highway in Volusia County, Florida, on Thursday night.
When deputies arrived, they found Smith unconscious with her 12-year-old daughter, a 7-year-old boy, a 1-year-old boy and two dogs in the minivan.
"I honestly took heroin because my back was hurting," Smith, 28, told the officials.
"It's not, but I had no pain pill and my back was hurting and I'm making a five-hour trip," she responded.
She was charged with neglect but was not immediately booked into Volusia County Branch Jail pending her treatment at the hospital, police said.