Boy, five, took fathers 4x4 on four-mile joyride

242PM GMT eighteen March 2010

Boy, five, took father"s Mitsubishi Shogun on four-mile joyride

Traffic officers described the situation as ""remarkable"" and pronounced the child and alternative drivers were propitious to have transient but critical injury.

Several motorists dialled 999 after spotting a Mitsubishi Shogun being driven erratically and solemnly by a small child on roads easterly of Chichester, West Sussex, only after 7am.

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At around the same time, the boy"s father reported to military that his son had driven off in the family car moments beforehand.

A short whilst after the 4x4 strike a wall in Pook Lane, Lavant, and Sussex Police hold the child had trafficked only over 4 miles from his home prior to crashing.

The child, who has not been identified, was taken to St Richard"s Hospital in Chichester as a prevision but appears to have been uninjured and was reunited with his family.

A motorist who had been quickly following the Shogun took caring of the child whilst military and an ambulance were called, a force orator said.

Police after perceived reports of 3 alternative vehicles, dual of that were parked, being shop-worn by the Shogun but nobody was injured.

The 4x4 was initial seen by drivers travelling along a short widen of the A27 in between Tangmere and the connection with the A285, afterwards up to Halnaker and afterwards opposite nation to Lavant.

The military orator pronounced "Police hold that the car trafficked only over 4 miles from the address. Several witnesses have oral of it being driven at a delayed speed, but erratically."

Officers have met with the family to insist what happened but no serve movement will be taken, the orator added.

Pc Mark Ryan, of Sussex Police"s highway policing section formed at Chichester, pronounced "This was a conspicuous situation and both the child and alternative highway users obviously had a propitious escape, as a critical incident could have happened at any stage."