Boy, 5, took 4x4 on four-mile ‘joyride’ before crashing into wall

A FIVE-YEAR-OLD boy took his family’s automatic 4x4 on a four-mile “joyride” yesterday morning before crashing it into a wall.

Traffic officers described the incident as “remarkable” and said the boy and other drivers were lucky to have escaped without serious injury.

Several motorists dialled 999 after spotting a Mitsubishi Shogun being driven erratically and slowly by a small boy on roads east of Chichester, West Sussex, just after 7am.