8yo driver pursued by police hits lamp post, 6yo sister dies at scene

A six-year-old girl has died after her eight-year-old brother crashed the family car in Arizona.

The girl was found dead in the passenger seat of the car, wearing her pyjamas, police said.

The boy suffered ankle injuries after the family's Hyundai Elantra car hit a pole at the side of the road, a block from home, in South Phoenix.

Police had spotted the vehicle moments earlier and were attempting to pull it over when the accident happened.

It is understood the children's mother raised the alarm after believing the children had been kidnapped at 10pm on Wednesday night.

She had previously bathed the children and put them to bed, said police sergeant Steve Martos, of the Phoenix Police Department.

"It's a tragic story, all the way round," said Mr Martos, who did not give the children's names.

Police said they started to get numerous 911 calls starting around 10.15pm.

One caller said the car had struck a fence. Another, who followed the vehicle, reported that children were inside.

At around 10.30 pm, when police tried to pull the vehicle over, it veered to the right and hit a pole, Mr Martos said.

"This was one of those situations when the officers believed they were trying to rescue kids from a possible kidnapper," the police officer added.

"When they ran up to the vehicle, they found an eight-year-old in the driver's seat, and a six-year-old in the passenger seat, severely injured."

Both the children were in their pyjamas and the girl was not wearing a seat belt. The air bags did not deploy.

The mother had walked to the scene and discovered that her children were in the car. Police said they did not know what prompted the boy to take his mother's car.

They have not spoken to the boy, but no criminal complaints are expected to be filed, because the child is too young.

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Kazenga <3 said:

One of the downfalls of automatic cars (presuming this as in the States), defy any 8 year old to be able to start up a manual and attain high speed without being told specifically how to do it.

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Psychobilly freakout said:

Shocking just shocking as Gazwag said makes you wonder what the whole story is.

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Psychobilly freakout said:

Also a note in that the seat belts failed, on my regular trips to the states including Phoenix I have noticed how mashed & beat up the cars are driving around and the wife informed me that is because we dont have MOT's.

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hans kraay fan club said:

It says that they were not wearing seat-belts, not that they failed?

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Psychobilly freakout said:

Also a note in that the seat belts failed, on my regular trips to the states including Phoenix I have noticed how mashed & beat up the cars are driving around and the wife informed me that is because we dont have MOT's.

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Mellotron said:

How long until some CT bellend gets on this thread stating with confidence that the Government did it?

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Papa Lazarou said:

I cant' see that happening. This would be one story too far, surely?

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