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Child in Germany Goes on Highway Joyride with Mom's Car


Fri 23 Aug 2019 | 09:02 AM
Yassmine Elsayed

German police said an 8-year-old child took his mom's car and went for a nighttime joyride on a highway in western Germany.

Media reports quoted Soest police explaining that a boy's mother called them early Wednesday after she noticed that both her son and her VW Golf had disappeared.

The mother and police eventually found the boy at a highway service area where he had earlier  parked the car, turned on the hazard lights and put up the warning triangle.

The boy told the police that he started feeling "uncomfortable" once he hit 140 kph (87 mph) on the highway.

on her part, the mother said her son regularly drives go-carts and bumper cars and has in the past practiced driving a real car on private property.

The legal age for driving in Germany is 18.

Child driving is common in many cases which some eventually ending with accidents.

Days ago, A motorist has been caught on camera balancing a baby on his lap while driving at speed along the Pacific Motorway in Queensland.

Earlier last month, authorities in Canberra, Australia , stopped four children aged 10 to 14 who packed fishing rods in a parent’s SUV, and left a farewell note before driving more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) down the Australian east coast for a day.

The children were chased after failing to pay for fuel at Outback gas stations in the Queensland town of Banana and the New South Wales town of Warialda, police said.