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.
BERLIN (AP) — A trailer packed with people celebrating May Day overturned in southern Germany on Wednesday, leaving 30 injured, 10 of them seriously, police and media reports said.
According to the German news agency dpa, the accident happened near the city of Freiburg. Police say it took place in the village of Kandern, and that rescue helicopters were deployed, including some from neighboring Switzerland, as well as a large number of rescue and police forces.
None of the injured were in life-threatening condition, dpa reported.
Local papers said the trailer that was being pulled by an agricultural machine overturned at around 1 p.m.
Reports said the people on the trailer were celebrating May Day, which is observed in many countries to celebrate workers’ rights.
Police said that the injured included a group of friends aged between 20 and 25 years who came from surrounding villages and were celebrating on the open trailer when the it toppled over on a road going downhill.
Rescue workers stand next to an overturned May wagon after an accident in Kandern, Germany, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Police say an accident involving a trailer in southwestern Germany has left 30 people injured, 10 of them seriously. German news agency dpa reported that the accident happened near the city of Freiburg on Wednesday. (Gudrun Gehr, Oberbadisches Verlagshaus/dpa via AP)
