Chilling footage captured the moment an eight-year-old girl drove an off-road vehicle on a 25-minute drive to her destination.
The girl took her family’s white 2020 Nissan Rogue from their home in Bedford, Ohio, on Sunday morning.
In addition to the vehicle, the boy also left home with $400 to spend at the store.
Her family reported her missing to the Bedford Police Department around 7 a.m. To their surprise, a neighbor’s surveillance camera revealed that the little girl had climbed into the driver’s seat and driven away in the truck.
The young woman was found safe after arriving at the popular retail store in Bainbridge.
Another driver saw the family car on the road that morning as the girl swerved across the road. The other driver called 911 to report the girl for reckless driving.
Dashboard camera footage captured an eight-year-old girl taking her family’s white 2020 Nissan Rogue on a ride to Target in Bainbridge, Ohio, on Sunday morning.
Her family reported her missing to the Bedford Police Department around 7 a.m. before police found her at the popular retail store in Bainbridge (pictured).
The clip shows the young woman driving the car just as the sun was rising on Rockside Road.
The other driver recorded the vehicle through his windshield as the boy swerved into his lane at a green light.
In the background, the male driver can be heard reporting the “erratic driver” to the police as he drove behind her.
At the end of the video, the girl is seen turning the car to the left, into the opposite lane.
While her parents worried about where she was, police received a call from the worried driver behind her.
The other driver recorded the vehicle through his windshield as the boy swerved into his lane at a green light.
In their quest to find the eight-year-old, a small victory came when a license plate reader detected the SUV on Pettibone Road. Get to know us reported.
Bainbridge Police eventually located the vehicle in the Target parking lot and the girl was located inside the store.
Surprisingly, no one was injured even though the eight-year-old girl admitted to police that she had smashed a mailbox in her driveway.
It takes 25 minutes to travel the more than ten-mile route from your home to the store.
During her shopping spree, the girl used the $400 to compare prices and then pay, employees said. WEWS-TV Channel.
The Bedford Police Department declined to tell DailyMail.com whether charges had been filed against the eight-year-old girl because it is an ongoing investigation. It is also unclear what the girl went to the store to buy.
In the background, the male driver can be heard reporting the “erratic driver” to police as he drove behind her.
TikTok users were shocked by the discount compared to the much higher prices they saw in Florida, Virginia and Illinois.
But in a humorous post on its Facebook page, the department wrote: ‘That’s right, an eight-year-old took mom’s car this morning and drove to Target on Bainbridge to do some shopping.
“I’m not sure what she bought or if she was able to use the Target app to save 5%. We let her finish her Frappuccino. We’re not bad people.”
The incident comes just two months after police released body camera footage showing an unharmed toddler inside his mother’s stolen pickup truck.
The tragic incident occurred moments after Ohio mother and speech pathologist Alexa Stakely, 29, threw herself onto the hood of the vehicle as a carjacker sped away, before falling off, leaving her with fatal head injuries.
She died that day trying to save the life of her six-year-old son after the suspect attempted to steal the vehicle in which the six-year-old was sleeping.
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