Toddler Crashes Dad's Car Twice in Four Days
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A motor-mad three-year-old German boy crashed his father's car twice in four days, police in the western town of Borken said on Monday.



Using a ladder, the boy stole the keys to his father's Honda Accord, started the car and plowed it into a nearby Toyota, causing some 5,000 euros ($5,750) of damage but escaping unharmed.


When a television crew came to their home in the town of Bocholt near the Dutch border to reconstruct the incident four days later, the young lad took matters into his own hands.


Sitting behind the wheel with the car key given to him during filming, his urge to drive overtook him again.


"The father was with the television crew," said Borken police spokesman Frank Rentmeister. "The car was in gear and the boy just started up and drove into the car ahead."


The boy was not hurt, but chalked up further damages totaling around 1,000 euros. Police are now investigating the father for criminal negligence.

 

 

 

Sounds like a good one for a Darwin award

 

not eligible for darwin: too young to know any better.

 

Hahaaaaaaa that's great

 

 

LOL, that's actually pretty impressive... I don't think I would know how to turn the ignition at 3.. how did he know to put it out of "P" and into Drive or Reverse? and how did he reach the gas pedal?

 

That is too good.

 

It says in the story that the car was "in gear", this would suggest that it was a manual transmission and if you start a manual with the car in gear it will lurch forward without the need for your foot on the gas ....