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Police car chase stops speeding 10-year-old boy

Agence France-Presse | 09/27/2008 3:09 AM

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OSLO - With police cars wailing behind him, a 10-year-old boy sped and swerved at up to 90 kilometres (56 miles) an hour along a Norwegian highway Friday morning before he was finally forced to a halt, police said.

"A 10-year-old boy drove a car for about 20 kilometres along the highway at up to 90 kilometres an hour," Birgit Monsaas, the duty officer at the Soer-Troendelag regional police force in central Norway, told AFP.

"We had to put in patrol cars in front and in back of him, but he didn't want to stop. In the end we had to force him off the road," she said.

Miraculously no one was injured as the boy, hardly tall enough to peak over the steering wheel, zigzagged and swerved uncontrollably along the busy motorway towards the town of Trondheim, several times veering over into the opposite lane, according to media reports.

"The car he was driving was slightly damaged though," Monsaas said.

Police would not comment on how the boy had gained access to the car.

as of 09/27/2008 3:11 AM