Boy, 11, Crashes After Mom Lets Him Drive

[matcom]

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CHICAGO --A woman allowed her 11-year-old son to drive the family's minivan to his elementary school, where the boy crashed the vehicle near a group of children.

No one was hurt. The boy, however, was expelled from school, and both he and his mother were ordered to traffic court later this month.

The crash happened Monday outside St. John Fisher School on Chicago's South Side, not far from where the children were lining up to go inside. The minivan jumped the curb and hit a school zone sign as the boy tried to turn a corner, authorities said.

Police said they don't know why Erin Sarandah decided to let her son drive the couple of blocks from home to the school while she and her daughter were passengers.

"She had a license," said police spokesman Pat Camden.

Sarandah was cited for damage to property and allowing an unauthorized person to drive, Camden said. The boy received a traffic ticket for negligent driving and driving without a license.

A telephone listing for Sarandah could not immediately be found.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/06/09/boy_11_crashes_after_mom_lets_him_drive?mode=PF

[LisaL]

1. Some parents don't have any more sense than a roach.

Thankfully, no one was hurt. Could have been a different story altogether if he crashed into that group of children.

[4morewars]

2. I wonder if he...

shit his nappies ?

[katinmn]

3. Glad she wasn't my mom!

Gee, what do you expect when you allow a grade school kid to drive a minivan?:silly:

She's lucky some other little kid didn't get killed.