A father was found slumped over his steering wheel unconscious after overdosing on heroin while driving his two young children and wife on a highway . Larry Messer , 39 , of Harrison , Ohio admitted to injecting himself with heroin before driving onto Interstate 74 on Saturday with his two kids , aged seven months and two , who were seated in the back seat . After he passed out , his wife , who has not been named , had to grab the steering wheel bringing the car to a stop on the side of the road , according to court documents . During an inventory search of the car , police found numerous meth pipes , a spoon , hypodermic needles and a loaded syringe filled with heroin as identified by Messer , according to WCPO . Larry Messer ( above ) , 39 , admitted to injecting himself with heroin before driving onto Interstate 74 on Saturday with his two kids , aged seven months and two , who were seated in the back seat . When officers approached the car , they said they saw a woman who appeared visibly upset standing outside of it and Messer passed out in the driver seat . After they realized he appeared to have overdosed on heroin , they contacted paramedics who gave him Narcan , which is an antidote for opiate overdoses , which helped revive him , according to WSMV . Messer has been charged with two counts of child endangering , possessing drug abuse instruments and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia . He is currently being held at the Hamilton County Justice Center and is set to appear in court on Monday . After Messer injected himself with heroin and lost consciousness on the interstate , his wife , who has not been named , had to grab the steering wheel bringing the car to a stop on the side of the road ( above Interstate 74 where the incident occurred on Saturday )
Larry Messer , 39 , of Messer admitted to injecting himself with heroin before driving on the highway with two kids , aged seven months and two . His wife had to grab the steering wheel and bring the car to a stop on the side of the road . Police found numerous meth pipes , a spoon , hypodermic needles and a loaded syringe , which was reportedly filled with heroin , in the car . Messer has been charged with two counts of child endangering , possessing drug abuse instruments and illegal use or possession of drug paraphernalia .