A trooper stopping a car with a suspected
"impaired driver" on a US highway on Monday was bemused to
find a five-year-old in the driver's seat, the Utah Highway Patrol
tweeted.
After seeing a vehicle driving slowly and weaving in the
left lane of the Interstate 15 freeway, the trooper turned on
his siren, and the driver neatly pulled over to the side of the
road.
Dashboard camera video posted by the police captures the
conversation between the trooper and the driver.
"You're 5 years old?" the trooper says. "Wow!"
He then asks the child where he learned how to drive and
takes down other details.
One of our Troopers in Weber Co. initiated a traffic stop on what he thought was an impaired driver. Turns out it was this young man, age 5, somehow made his way up onto the freeway in his parents' car. Made it from 17th and Lincoln in Ogden down to the 25th St off-ramp SB I-15. pic.twitter.com/3aF1g22jRB
— Utah Highway Patrol (@UTHighwayPatrol) May 4, 2020
The boy, who was not identified as he is a minor, said he
had left home in his parents' vehicle after arguing with his
mother, who had told him she would not buy him a Lamborghini.
"He decided to take the car and go to California to buy one
himself," the police said in a tweet, adding: "He might have
been short on the purchase amount as he only had $3 (about R55) in his
wallet."
The Utah police did not respond to requests for more
information about the boy.