A police officer chased a car a stop, and found 9-year-old boy behind the wheel!
"Just shock, several other officers showed up as well and it was kind of one of those 'no one really believed it' kind of things. So several other officers showed up to the scene just to see in fact that it was a 9-year-old driving the vehicle," said Officer Terry Dunn of the California Highway Patrol.
Dunn noticed the car stopped in the middle of an intersection, and announced over the PA for the car to move. The boy turned to make his way through the intersection and then the parking lot of a Valero gas station. After navigating his way through the gas station he made his way through to a dirt lot, where he backed into Officer Dunn's patrol car.
"A few seconds later, I did notice a little head bobbin inside - unusual. I exited my patrol vehicle, made an approach, and as I was approaching, I could see a kid which turned out to be a 9-year-old child sticking his head out saying, 'I'm sorry, I was trying to get to school,'" Dunn said.
The boy's school was next door.
"At that point, we're trying to identify if that was the school he was actually heading to. We contacted the principal, we contacted the parent, and everyone showed up to the scene," Dunn said.
No one got hurt, but it is a good lesson to keep the car keys out of kids' reach. The boy got to go to school after the whole situation with a whopper of a story.