family overdose

It happened on Wednesday on Prospect Street in East Liverpool near a school bus stop.

An East Liverpool Police Officer says he witnessed a dark Ford Explorer driving erratically.

As a school bus was discharging students, the vehicle in question began to brake hard and skidded to a stop.

The officer made contact with the driver who was identified as 47-year-old, James Lee Acord. According to the police report his head was bobbing back and forth, and his speech was difficult to understand.

Acord stated that he was taking his female passenger, 50-year-old Rhonda Pasek to the hospital.

Eventually, both of the adults were completely unconscious in the car and had to be revived by Narcan. A drug commonly used to reverse an opiate overdose.

In the backseat was a 4-year-old boy, later identified as Pasek's grandson according to city officials. Columbiana County Children's Services was called.