Posted on 06/02/2021 4:00:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Two Utah girls, ages 9 and 4, were uninjured Wednesday after they took a car and crashed into a tractor trailer as they tried to drive to California for a beach vacation, police said.
The driver of the truck also was unhurt.
The crash happened when the 9-year-old driver sideswiped one driver, then swerved into the path of the truck on a highway frontage road in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Valley City.
The children were wearing their seatbelts during the crash that briefly closed traffic lanes near the highway.
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“The children were wearing their seatbelts”
Hope they weren’t texting.
They learned a valuable lesson. Next time steal a Tesla.
Oh, wait. That’s what they were texting their mom. A selfie of themselves wearing a seatbelt.
Can a 9 year old even see over the dashboard?
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50 yards. Nothing to be proud of, Russ.
I have to applaud the idea however poorly executed.
Beats my try at 8 or 9.....wrapped myself in a blanket & hid in the backseat of their car hoping I’d go back to Indiana with them. I was unsuccessful.
My grandparent’s car
I hope they get a beach vacation...
I like the spunk. BRAVO! Nice to see not every yute is growing up totally snowflaked.
When I was about that age, I hopped in my Grandfather’s automobile and drove around for a while. He always left the key in the ignition, and every day that summer I would sit in the driver’s seat, and then one day both feet touched the pedals, so away I went.
A tree got in my way so I had to turn off the ignition, then Granddad arrived and said, “If you are going to drive, you’d better learn to put the car in reverse.”
I’ve been driving ever since. Eventually I got a driver’s license and made it legal.
Sleepy46 will buy them ice cream for quick sniff.
Thank god no one was hurt from these two kids. However the parents bank account will be another matter.
Sorry, I don’t applaud these kids. No one of us 4 kids in my family would dare to do this, and certainly at that age to even try it would require we knew how. We had no knowledge of manipulating a car or driving whatsoever. I’m thinking the kid driving already had driven before.
I used to sit on dad’s lap when I couldn’t reach the pedals. Drove all over the Bald Hills until the beer run low then we had to go back.
i wouldn’t be here now if i attempted that...
when i was a kid our family car was a police car...
I understand.
After I could see over the dashboard, I was allowed to drive to Church on Sunday mornings since there wasn’t a lot of traffic.
When one of my sons was about nine, he asked me how to put the car in gear. I didn’t tell about pressing the brake because I figured he would try it if he got the chance.
Someone’s got “some ‘splainin’ to do”.
My high school valedictorian couldn’t see over dashboards unless she sat on phone books.
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