Toddler (4) rams two parked cars with his parents' car
In the Utrecht district of Overvecht, a 4-year-old boy collided with two parked cars in his parents' car yesterday. The police speak today on social media of "the new Max Verstappen", for whom the adventure ended with a anticlimax.
Officers received a report early yesterday morning that a young child was walking on the street in Overvecht, barefoot and in his pyjamas. The police took the boy to the station, because it was not clear where his parents were.
Once there, the police received a new report, this time of an accident with cars in Overvecht. A vehicle had hit two parked cars there, but there was no trace of the perpetrator. The causing car turned out to be in the name of the mother of the 4-year-old boy.
When officers called the mother and she spoke to her son on the phone, he began to make gestures with his hands from driving a car and a collision. "This gave us the suspicion that the child could possibly have driven," writes the police.
Eventually, officers went to look at the car with the boy and his parents. They asked him to show how the car worked. "The child opened the car with the key and put the key in the ignition. He started the car, went to the clutch with his left foot and stepped on the gas."
According to the police, it turned out afterwards that the boy had woken up when his father went to work. He then grabbed the car key "to drive around".
The boy's mother says she has a rather "enterprising" child. The police advise the parents to hide the car keys well from now on.
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. Subtle to people not in the know, but quite in your face for the ex in-laws.