Bedford Driving Lessons

Trundling along at 10mph, he could hardly be described as a boy racer. But as he just five years old, there was no telling what damage the driver of the 4×4 would do. The boy, named locally as Thomas Chatfield, took his father’s Mitsubishi Shogun automatic and drove it for four miles including a section of dual carriageway through the morning rush hour yesterday Motorists and pedestrians who phoned police could only see the top of his head as he bashed into two parked cars and dealt a passing vehicle a glancing blow. After 20 minutes the tearful child’s journey came to an end as he crashed the high-powered car into a brick wall. Fortunately no one was injured and after being taken to hospital as a precaution, Thomas was reunited with his father. He had dialled 999 after waking to find his car and son missing from his home near Chichester, West Sussex. It is not clear exactly how Thomas managed to drive the car, but most modern Shogun models can be started simply by pressing the ‘start’ button. It is thought that Thomas would not even have needed to touch the pedal, as the automatic would have moved at low speed just by being in the drive mode. More