Nothing is impossible! A 4-year-old boy drove his mother's car to a video store a quarter-mile from their apartment in Sand Lake - about 15 miles north of Grand Rapids.
Sand Lake police said Monday, unable to reach the accelerator, the boy managed to put the car in gear and make his way to the store about 1:30 a.m. Friday. Finding the store closed, the youngster, Adrian Cole began a slow trip home.
Thinking at first that the driver was drunk, the officer in charge Sgt. Jay Osga turned on his flashing lights, only then realising he could not see anyone behind the steering wheel.
He then thought that the car had possibly taken off by itself from a nearby petrol station, without anyone at the controls.
With the officer still in pursuit, the car swerved sharply into a residential parking lot and hit another car. It then went into reverse, and crashed into the police cruiser. What the officer found when he jumped out and looked was a four-year-old boy.
“He knew how to go from forward to reverse,” Osga said Monday. “The mother said she taught him how to drive by letting him sit on her lap and steer,” he said.
“He's 4 years old. His mom didn't even know he was up,” Sand Lake Police Chief Doug Heugel said. “I don't think he even realizes what he did,” he said.
No charges will be filed against the boy or his mother, Heugel said and it is as yet unknown which games console or PC Adrian was looking for a video game for.
