Investigators in Gwinnnet County, Georgia said 25-year-old Bahari Shaquille Warren has been charged with two counts of cruelty to children.
Police said Warren told her five-year-old and seven-year-old children to buckle up and then she accelerated blindly into a concrete pole.
Patrol car footage after the crash showed one of the children explaining to the police her mother's intentions.
She said: "She [Warren] was telling us to believe in God so nothing would happen to us.
"Her eyes [were] closed and she was saying, 'blah, blah, blah, I love God'.
"She didn't want us to just have a car accident. She wanted us to know that God is real."
Police said that no one was hurt in the crash. The children are in the custody of their grandparents.
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