KUALA LUMPUR – British police arrested an 11-year-old boy yesterday who was found driving a BMW car along a main highway while towing a stolen caravan.
Reuters reported that the police, in a statement, received a call about a stolen caravan from a holiday site near Thirsk in northeastern England and were informed that a black BMW was towing it away.
They then tracked down the car on the M1 highway, which connects the country’s capital, London, in the south, to Leeds in the north.
“But nothing prepared us for finding the schoolboy sitting at the wheel,” police for the North Yorkshire region said.
The legal age in Britain for driving a car is 17.
The boy was arrested on suspicion of a number of offences, including theft, burglary, going equipped for theft, and motoring offences, including dangerous driving, the statement said.
He was questioned and has since been released on conditional police bail to allow further inquiries. – March 9, 2024