The boy said he started feeling ‘uncomfortable’ once he hit 87mph on the highway.
Police say an eight-year-old boy took his mum’s car and went for a nighttime joyride on a highway in western Germany.
Soest police said the boy’s mother called them on Wednesday after she noticed that both her son and her VW Golf had disappeared.
Mother and police eventually found the boy at a highway service area where he had parked the car, turned on the hazard lights and put up the warning triangle.
According to police, the boy said he started feeling “uncomfortable” once he hit 140kph (87mph) on the highway.
The boy’s mother said her son regularly drives go-carts and bumper cars and has in the past practised driving a real car on private property.
The legal age for driving in Germany is 18.
PHOENIX (AP) — A truck driver has been killed after a tank holding waste material depressurized at a construction site in Phoenix, where workers are building an advanced semiconductor manufacturing plant that could supply tens of millions of chips for powering smartphones, vehicles and data center servers.
Cesar Anguiano-Guitron, 41, was taking waste material away from the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plant site in a tractor trailer Wednesday, police said.
Anguiano-Guitron was inspecting the tank for a potential problem when an uncontrolled pressure release occurred, causing him to be struck by a blunt object and thrown over 20 feet (6 meters).
He was taken to a hospital, where he died from his injuries. Police said the incident is under investigation.
Officials with TSMC Arizona said in a statement that no company employees or onsite construction workers were injured and there was no damage to the plant’s facilities.
TSMC produces nearly all of the leading-edge microchips in the world and plans to eventually do so in the U.S.
Last month, President Joe Biden’s administration pledged to provide up to $6.6 billion so that the Taiwanese semiconductor giant can expand the facilities it is already building in Arizona and better ensure that the most advanced microchips are produced domestically for the first time.
The funding is tied to a sweeping 2022 law that Biden has celebrated and which is designed to revive U.S. semiconductor manufacturing.
This image made from video provided by ABC15 shows emergency vehicles as they respond to the TSMC semiconductor plant under construction in Phoenix, Wednesday, May 15, 2024, after a worker was fatally injured when a tank holding waste material depressurized. He was struck and thrown over 20 feet. He died at a hospital from his injuries. (ABC15 via AP)
This image made from video provided by ABC15 shows emergency vehicles as they respond to the TSMC semiconductor plant under construction in Phoenix, Wednesday, May 15, 2024, after a worker was fatally injured when a tank holding waste material depressurized. He was struck and thrown over 20 feet. He died at a hospital from his injuries. (ABC15 via AP)
