SEE IT: Dashcam shows 8-year-old driving to Target
BEDFORD, Ohio (WJW) – Dashcam video appears to show an 8-year-old girl behind the wheel of her family’s car — and on her way to Target.
Bedford police reported over the weekend that they found the child safe and shopping, after they said she took a car and drove on busy roads to the popular retail store.
On Sunday morning, police took a call for the missing child. As they began to investigate, police also took a call “concerning a small child driving east on Rockside Road.”
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In the dashcam video, recorded from a personal vehicle, you can hear a man call the police and report a vehicle behind him “swerving everywhere.”
Eventually, the swerving driver passes into view of the dashcam and the man can be heard telling dispatchers “It looks like a kid!”
Officers eventually found the car in the parking lot of a Target store in Bainbridge. Police then found the 8-year-old girl in the store.
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Although the exact route the child took is not clear, Google Maps shows the store is more than 10 miles from where she was reported missing and about a 20-25 minute drive.
She told officers during her travels she “struck a mailbox.”
The girl’s relatives were called to the store to get her and the vehicle.
Police tell the FOX 8 I-Team the girl is too young to charge criminally, and they are grateful no one was injured.
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