Rebecca Doyle, a mother with three kids in Sandy, Utah, was doing housework around 6 p.m. on February 25 when she heard something strange outside her home.

“We heard what kind of sounded like a crash,” she told KSL-TV. At first, she thought maybe someone was involved in a fender bender—but what came afterward caught her attention.

“But I heard metal scraping.” She ignored it, going about the day with her kids. Then her neighbor stopped by to alert her to what really happened. Thirty-one-year-old Kerri Housley had crashed into her all-cement mailbox, smashing it to pieces with her car. The only evidence that was left behind was her bumper.

Police caught up with her shortly after

As it turns out, Housely and her kids live in the same neighborhood as Doyle. She came back after she’d taken her three small kids to a parent-teacher conference.

When police approached her about the destroyed mailbox, they smelled alcohol on her breath and saw a whiskey bottle. When they’d performed a field sobriety test, she blew .291—nearly six times Utah’s BAC limit of .05.

Police were most concerned about her kids, who were in the back of her car when the accident happened. She was arrested for driving under the influence and for child endangerment.

Doyle said it could have been her kids

Around the same time the accident happened, Doyle said her children asked her about playing outside.

“I’m honestly grateful it wasn’t our kids out here,” she said. ” had the thought earlier in the day — let’s go play with scooters in the front — I’m just glad we stayed inside.”