Woman Gives 12 Year Old Daughter Keys To Car - Daughter Crashes

[matcom]

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A Slidell woman gave her 12-year-old daughter a crash course in driving, letting the youngster take the family car for a spin that ended when the vehicle slammed into two parked cars, Slidell police said Tuesday.

No one was injured in the crash in the parking lot of the Pinecrest Plaza strip mall on Old Spanish Trail at Slidell Avenue, police said.

The woman and her daughter were leaving the shopping center Monday at 4:30 p.m. when the girl begged her mother to let her drive home, Lt. Rob Callahan said.

The woman agreed to let the girl get behind the wheel of the 1995 Mazda Millenia under the condition that they would not leave the parking lot, Callahan said.

But after backing the car out of the parking space as her mother rode in the front passenger seat, the girl promptly drove onto Slidell Avenue and began turning right at a stop light at Old Spanish Trail, one of the city's busiest streets, he said.

"The mother said she was yelling at the girl, 'No! No! No! I wanted you to stay in the parking lot!' " Callahan said.

The girl apparently panicked and stepped on the gas instead of the brakes while keeping the wheel turned to the right, he said.

The car hopped a curb, zoomed through the parking lot and crashed into a pair of Nissan Maximas parked side by side, Callahan said. The mother and daughter declined medical treatment, he said.

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[childslibrarian]

1. I had a client

whose Dad let her drive his car through a graveyard. Naturally she crashed. BTW, he was drunk.

[TX-RAT]

2. Been a rash of these lately

Yesterday there was one involving a 3 year old in Big Spring TX
Before that there was one that was 12. Both resulting in the arrest of the Adults.
What are these people thinking.

[Wilber_Stool]

3. Now that'a gonna make a good story.____n/t

[Reverend_Smitty]

4. Someone needs to nominate that woman...

for a Darwin Award...What a dumb-ass