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Two kids turned their dad into police — as he allegedly drove drunk with them inside the car.

Jason Behrens was driving recklessly in Nebraska last week en route to a vacation in Colorado with kids Ethan, 12, and Mackenzie, 14, — when the siblings made a decision to get their pop off the road, according to CNN.

“We told him, ‘We don’t want to go anymore because you are drunk and I don’t want to die,” Mackenzie told the network.

The two made a pact that if their dad got close to an accident , they’d take action.

“The next time he swerves, send the text,” Ethan remembers telling Mackenzie moments before their dad swerved out of the way of a head-on collision.

“ I pushed send,” the teen daughter said.

Behrens’ children managed to convince him to pull over at a Burger King in Kearney, where police were able to catch up with them. The county has a text-enabled 911 system.

Cops arrested him after he blew three times the legal limit on a breathalyzer, according to the report.

Behrens was charged with a DUI and two counts of driving drunk with minor.

“They really, really, really saved our lives,” Ethan said.

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