A 4-year-old California boy suffered only minor injuries after he took his mother’s SUV for a spin in rush-hour traffic before flipping the vehicle.
The unidentified boy’s mother told police that she pulled over in a restaurant parking lot Thursday afternoon to make a phone call when her son somehow wriggled out of his car seat and into the driver’s seat, California’s KTLA TV reported.
Police say the boy drove the silver Lexus through a busy Fullerton, Calif., boulevard, negotiating several turns and intersections before side-swiping another car.
Witnesses say the boy then drove into oncoming traffic on State College Blvd., a busy thoroughfare, without slamming into any other vehicles.
“As I looked at this little boy, he was standing on the seat and he had this look of terror in his eyes … and he was trying to control that thing,” witness Danny Guerra told the station.
The SUV then crashed into a fence, rolled over and slammed into a grove of trees, according to KTLA.
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