A driving instructor from Long Island was inebriated during an accident: the police

An alcoholic driving instructor from Long Island was so reckless behind this shuttlecock that his students got out of the car and hid in a McDonald's before he was stopped by another driver and was arrested, police said.

"I'm happy to be alive," Matt McGeough, one of the students, told Newsday.

Russell Cohen, 58, an instructor at the Suffolk Auto Driving School, was driving McGeough and three other teens to Centereach on Saturday morning, when students suspected he was drunk, Cops said.

Cohen made inappropriate comments to two of the teenage girls in the car and hit a sidewalk during the lesson, teens told Newsday.

They convinced him to engage in a McDonald's on Middle Country Road and called 911 around 11 am, officials said.

"We jumped as soon as possible," student Lila Mabanta told the Long Island newspaper.

Cohen realized that students were not coming out of McDonald's and moving away from the restaurant, the police said.

He hit a 29-year-old Honda pilot about 45 minutes later on the Montauk Trail in Ridge, police said. The Honda driver was taken to a local hospital and treated for life-threatening injuries.

Cohen was arrested for impaired driving, endangering the well-being of children, the police said.

His indictment was pending on Sunday.