3-year-old drives car | Sangent - The Daily Ramblings

submitted by Sang on 04.1.2006 in Life/Weird/Funny News

A three-year-old boy has taken his dad’s car for a spin.

During the drive Andrew Mcdowell injured his dad and crashed into two cars.

Andrew got behind the Ford Mondeo’s wheel after dad Andy left the keys in the ignition as he changed a headlight bulb.

Andrew, from Washington, Tyne and Wear, put the automatic into “drive” and went on a 100-yard jaunt.

He raced across a busy junction and smashed into a parked car - which was then shoved into a van.

Andrew escaped without a scratch. But the damage to all three vehicles has been put at £6,500.

According to The Sun his dad said: “I’d left the keys in the ignition so I could check the lights were working after I changed the bulb. The next thing, my little lad had jumped in and turned the engine on.”

Andy needed first aid after being hit by the car as it lurched off. He added: “It must have got to about 10mph, with me clinging on to the wing mirror trying to stop it.

“It went over a junction and hit a people carrier, which then hit a van. I dread to think what might have happened if a car was going across the junction.”

Andrew’s mum Lyndsey, 29, said: “Like any three-year-old, he’s into anything.”