Boy, aged five, crashes parents' car

A five-year-old Sussex boy took his parents' car for a drive before crashing it into a wall.

Sussex Police said the youngster managed to drive the automatic Mitsubishi Shogun about four miles on roads east of Chichester.

Officers were alerted at 0700 GMT by a man who reported seeing a small boy at the wheel of the vehicle. His father also contacted police minutes later. The boy was found unharmed in the vehicle in Pook Lane, Lavant.



Police subsequently received reports of three vehicles which were damaged by the Shogun, two of which were parked.

The youngster was taken to St Richards Hospital for a check-up before being reunited with his family.

Pc Mark Ryan of Sussex Police Road Policing Unit said: "This was a remarkable incident and both the boy and other road-users clearly had a lucky escape, as a serious collision could have happened at any stage".