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Posted on 04/30/2025 4:19:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A Utah mom woke up to the police knocking on her door Sunday morning, telling her that her 7-year-old son had taken his 5-year-old sister on a drive to a different city.
According to the Ogden Police Department, they received calls about a reckless driver around 8 a.m. on April 27. Officers began to pursue the vehicle, but soon disengaged when they noticed the age of the driver and assessed the risk to the public.
The vehicle later hit a parking strip, and police responded to the scene of the crash. The children were found unharmed, according to officers.
The drive from the family’s home in Clearfield to where the car crashed in Ogden was about 10 miles.
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Pretty good driving for a seven year old. Most 17 year-old teens can’t, and have no interest in, driving these days.
This must be possible but I have difficulty seeing how a 7 year old could even reach the pedals let alone drive a vehicle with any competency.
Good for her.
She sounds like she's got some sense. Time to hide the keys, though.
I’m lovin’ it.
Well, the boy is a real gentleman.
These kids should get a $1 million endorsement deal from McDonald’s.
The instinct to drive a car yourself is greater than the desire for autopilot cars.
The mental accuity for driving a car is a state of greater mental development than telling a robot autopolit what to do for you.
The technologist want human drones who just do what their AI robots tell them to do.
It will reach the same end-stage of humanity the pilot of HG Wells Time Machine reached. Humans with the physical brains for critical thinking but with experience developing any critical thinking. Everything was done for them.
That’s thinking outside the box.
I’ve always felt uncomfortable seeing little kids drive their electric kiddie autos around the neighborhood. It seems to me that risks awakening a lust for driving, only to tell the kid he/she can’t drive for ten more years.
How big was this kid?! An Explorer is no small vehicle. When you want your Mickey D’s...
The Mom sounds level headed, but her being a single Mom of four, with a 7 year old who is having behavior problems, may be overwhelming. I hope she gets the help she and her son will be needing. She says so far, she doesn’t get any state help because the boy is only 7. We all now see what this 7 yr old is capable of doing.
I did something similar a few times when I was about that age....
But wasn’t brave enough to steal Mom’s car (and especially not Dad’s T-bird).... So I walked the three miles to town and back.
A 7-year-old, with decent training, is quite capable of operating a properly sized car. (or a mini-motorcycle).
Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
Behavioral problems? He's bored.
Society needs to stop treating boys as though they were defective girls. This kid needs to be in a motorcross league, maybe in a hunting club too.
His ancestors rode and drove horses at that age.
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