A California police officer got a shocking surprise when the car he was chasing came to a stop and found a 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 with the Oroville California Highway Patrol.
Officer Dunn noticed the car stopped in the middle of intersection of Fourth and Grand. He then announced over the PA system for the car to move, to which the boy turned onto Fourth Street, making his way through this intersection and then through the parking lot of the Valero gas station that I'm standing at. Now, after navigating his way through the gas station he made his way through to the dirt lot over there where he then 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."At that point, we're trying to identify if that was the school he was actually heading to.
Officer Dunn says despite no one getting hurt, it should serve as a lesson to keep the car keys out of kids' reach and teach kids the importance of driver safety and laws. "Hopefully a lot of other people take this to heart and learn from it. So, hopefully this doesn't happen again in the future. Just maybe talk to your children about the dangers of driving a vehicle and what could possibly happen," Dunn said.The-CNN-Wire & 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
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