UPI en Español  |   UPI Asia  |   About UPI  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Girl, 6, crashes car on her way to her dad's [VIDEO]

Girl, 6, crashes car on her way to her dad's [VIDEO]
|
 
CREDIT: CBS Pittsburgh
CREDIT: CBS Pittsburgh
Updated Feb. 4, 2013 at 4:53 PM
Published: Feb. 4, 2013 at 3:40 PM

A 6-year-old Pittsburgh girl crashed her mother's car Sunday morning after she tried to drive to see her dad, CBS Pittsburgh reported.

According to police, the girl took her mother's grey BMW shortly after 9 a.m. and intended to drive to Garfield to see her father. On her way, she ran into several cars and a land post before coming to a full stop.

The girl's mother was asleep in their Lawrenceville home when she decided to go for a ride, and though no one was injured a few got really close.

“When she was coming toward me, I was like, ‘what is she doing?’” Rommie Hawkins, a neighbor who happened to be walking by told the CBS affiliate. “I couldn't tell it was a young girl at the time, so I kind of just stepped behind the tree."

Once Hawkins realized it was a young girl behind the wheel, he started yelling at the car asking her to stop. The girl kept going, but soon enough she lost control of the vehicle, hit a curb and crashed into a pole.

Hawkins ran toward the girl, who was not injured in the accident, and got her out of the car.

Later on, police and the girl's father came to the scene to take her home. So far, nobody has pressed charges.

Recommended Stories
© 2013 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
'Star Trek Into Darkness' screening NBC upfronts Met Ball 2013
'Great Gatsby' premieres in New York Spire raised on top of One WTC 2013: Celebrity break ups and divorces
1 of 16
Flags-In Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery
View Caption
Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Roskos with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, "The Old Guard," participates in the annual Flags-In ceremony, May 23, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Soldiers place American flags in front of more than 260,000 gravestones in the cemetery in honor of Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
fark
Everyone's used to gas prices climbing up on the Memorial Day weekend, but now they're faced with...
#26minutes
If train A leaves the station at 7:45 AM traveling east at 45 mph and train B leaves a different...
Top 10 new species revealed. Behold the blue-balled monkey
Plagiarism, sex in conference rooms, wandering the halls socializing. Sometimes there aren't enough...
Experts say that U.S. schools should make physical education a core subject. Probably because most...