A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy drove a car for about 2.5km before losing control of the vehicle and crashing into a lamp post along Jalan Bukit Tangga in Langkawi last night.

Langkawi police chief Shariman Ashari said the boy, however, only suffered a cut to his chin in an incident at about 11pm.

He said the boy was driving the Toyota Vios with his three-year-old brother, who was unhurt in the accident.

“Police received a call from the public at 11.15pm on the incident,” he said in a statement today.

Preliminary investigation revealed the boy had driven the car from his home in Kampung Padang Mengkuang without his parents’ knowledge, he said.

Shariman said the boys had sneaked out from their house when their mother was in the bathroom and their father was asleep.

The case is being investigated under section 42 of the Road Transport Act 1987 for reckless and dangerous driving as well as section 31(1)(a) of the Child Act 2001 for child neglect. – Bernama, May 10, 2023.