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A seven year old US school boy was so keen to get to school when his parents slept in one morning that he took their car and attempted to drive himself. The boy unfortunately crashed the car en-route, although he only suffered minor injuries and was later discharged from hospital. He had missed the school bus and opted to take the car and drive to school but ran the car off the road several times before hitting an embankment and a utility pole. The boy arrived shortly after lunch after being taken to school
February 24, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
A seven year old US school boy was so keen to get to school when his parents slept in one morning that he took their car and attempted to drive himself. The boy unfortunately crashed the car en-route, although he only suffered minor injuries and was later discharged from hospital. He had missed the school bus and opted to take the car and drive to school but ran the car off the road several times before hitting an embankment and a utility pole. The boy arrived shortly after lunch after being taken to school by the authorities.

And in Germany, an eight-year-old boy who wanted to complain to his mother about being sent out of class, took his teacher's car and crashed it. The boy had been sent out from the class for disrupting a lesson but stole the teacher's car key when she was not looking. He managed to start up her car but drove it for just 25m before crashing into another vehicle that was also in the car park outside the school.

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