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Seven-Year Old At The Wheel
This report appeared on the Associated Press wire service – a warning to all parents not to encourage their childen to drive too early.
“Eager to get his driver’s license, a 7-year-old boy put on his seat belt and remembered to use his turn signal as he took his parents’ pickup out for a spin, leading police on a slow pursuit around town. Officers initially thought they were chasing a drunken driver Monday night.
“He was weaving and all over the road. He couldn’t stay in his lane,” Officer Josh Laverette said.
Instead, when the truck finally stopped in front of a home after the seven-mile escapade, they found a second-grader, barely four-feet-tall, behind the wheel. The house belonged to his parents.
“He was so short he had to sit up close to the steering wheel,” Laverette said. “Whenever he would brake, he would pick himself up with his left foot and stomp on the brake with his right.”
The pickup had swerved through traffic and busy intersections, nearly hitting one car stopped at a stop light and barely missing at least five oncoming cars, Laverette said.”
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