11-year-old boy arrested at the wheel of a BMW towing a trailer. British police expressed their “astonishment” in a statement.
The young man was released on bail after being questioned. No one was hurt in the incident in Yorkshire, England. The boy was arrested on suspicion of a number of offenses including theft, burglary, equipping himself for theft and road traffic offenses including dangerous driving, police said. The car was stopped on the M1 after it left the A1 at the Hook Moor junction, near Garforth.