Boy, 5, steals fathers 4x4 and drives for four miles

By Andrew Hough, and Laura Roberts 452PM GMT eighteen March 2010

The car was speckled by astounded motorists - who could usually see the tip of the child"s head - pushing at low speed in the high-powered Mitsubishi Shogun automatic.

His father called the military after waking to find his son and his car were blank from his home nearby Chichester, West Sussex.

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Meanwhile the small child gathering along a twin carriageway territory of the A27 from Tangmere towards Chichester prior to branch north on the A285.

He upheld Goodwood airfield, home to a engine racing track, prior to branch down a nation highway called Pook Lane.

The Shogun eventually strike a section wall in the encampment of Lavant, only outward Chichester, after multiform drivers dialled 999 to inform a car being driven "erratically".

By this time he had strike dual parked cars, dealt a flitting engineer a glancing blow and was being followed by an additional endangered driver.

When the Shogun, that typically comes with a 3.2 litre motor fuel engine, came to rest the masculine engineer got out and pulled the great child out of the car and called military and an ambulance.

The child was taken to St Richard"s Hospital in Chichester as a prevision but was unhurt and was shortly re-united with his family.

PC Mark Ryan of Sussex Police Road Policing Unit at Chichester currently pronounced "This was a conspicuous incident.

"The child and alternative road-users obviously had a propitious shun since there"s no disbelief a critical incident could have happened at any stage."

A West Sussex Police orator combined "I hold the child was great after he had the collision since he was a bit jarred but for a five year old he had driven utterly well.

"We were initial done wakeful only after 7am when multiform drivers called observant they had seen a Mitsubishi Shogun being driven by a small child on roads easterly of Chichester.

"At roughly the same time a unsettled internal man reported he had woken up and believed his 5-year old son had driven off a short whilst previously in their car, that is an automatic.

"It"s a weird box and we are not receiving movement opposite anyone."