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One of my brothers, when aged around 5, found the keys in the ignition of Dad and Mum\u2019s car and proceeded to start the car up and drive off.\u00a0 That\u2019s what you do with cars, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 Dad and Mum were having a rest in the house when this occurred, and thankfully Dad heard the engine and rushed outside to stop him before he got away!<\/p>\n
But he’s not the only one. \u00a0Just recently, in America (Where else!), two brothers aged five and two took off in their mother’s 2005 Ford Focus and headed off to their Grandfather\u2019s place.\u00a0 Life at home must have been a little dull at the time.\u00a0 Putnam County Sheriff deputies believe the toddlers might have teamed up to work the pedals and steer the steering wheel.\u00a0 The end result was a crash in the ditch, quite a distance away from home.\u00a0 The car was wrecked almost 5 km down the road, the boys unhurt.\u00a0 Prior to the jaunt, the boys were playing outside the home when they found the car keys under the mat.<\/p>\n
Another child (8 years old), and in America, recently drove his sister to McDonalds to buy some food from the drive through lane – paying for the food with his own piggy bank money.\u00a0 The police officer\u2019s, family friends and grandparents then stopped him from driving any further.<\/p>\n
A good reminder, if you own a car, is to keep the car locked up and the keys in a safe place out of reach of little fingers!\u00a0 If you don\u2019t mind the kids playing in the car, then make sure the keys are hidden away.<\/p>\n
If your kids love cars, give them a pedal car or electric car (kids size) to let their imaginations lead to healthy and safe outcomes.\u00a0 Another thing you can enjoy with young kids who like to drive is to take them off the road in a car and let them steer with you in control and in the driver’s seat.\u00a0 Who hasn\u2019t let their kids drive up the driveway or around a paddock under supervision while seated on your knees in the driver\u2019s seat?<\/p>\n
Have any of you \u00a0been in a situation where you (when under 10), your siblings or your own children have sought to drive off in your parent\u2019s car when aged well under the driving age? \u00a0Do share! \u00a0These days, Google helps to teach us to drive, and I suppose any bright kid can learn off Google! http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/offers-zaim\/online-zaym-na-kartu-payps.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of my brothers, when aged around 5, found the keys in the ignition of Dad and Mum\u2019s car and proceeded to start the car up and drive off.\u00a0 That\u2019s what you do with cars, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 Dad and Mum were having a rest in the house when this occurred, and thankfully Dad heard the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11366,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775\/revisions\/11366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}