Police stop 12-year-old boy from driving across Australia
Apr 24, 2017 | 3:15 AM
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SYDNEY, Australia — Outback police have arrested a 12-year-old boy who was almost a third of his way toward driving solo across Australia.
The unlicensed boy had driven more than 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) from his home in Kendall on the east coast when he was stopped by traffic police on Saturday on the Barrier Highway near the remote mining town of Broken Hill.
He was pulled over because a bumper bar was dragging on the road, New South Wales police said in a statement Sunday.
Officials said he was driving to the west coast city of Perth, more than 4,100 kilometres (2,500 miles) from Kendall.
