200km joyride: boy in China aged 12 steals father’s car and drives with sister to adjacent province because they were bored

A 12-year-old boy and his younger sister stole their father’s car and went on a highway joyride at speeds of up to 120km an hour

Police later found the car and children in a neighbouring province where the car had been parked with the kids still inside

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A boy and his sister hatched a plot to steal their dad’s car and go on an adventure to alleviate the boredom of school holidays. Photo: Handout

Published: 9:00am, 22 Jul 2022Updated: 12:34pm, 22 Jul 2022

A 12-year-old boy in China stole his father’s car and took his younger sister on a 200km joyride because they were bored, Chinese media has reported.

The boy from Huzhou in Zhejiang province, eastern China, got his younger sister to steal the key to their father’s SUV while their parents were at work on Monday and left in the car around 10am.

The children’s father returned home at 12 noon the same day, discovered the car and children missing, and called the police, The Paper reported.

The SUV was later found passing along the highway in neighbouring Jiangsu province, 200km away, at a speed of 120km per hour.

Despite the boy watching his father drive and playing driving simulation games, his driving was a little wobbly according to footage of the trip caught on camera. Photo: Baidu

A news video posted on video-sharing platform Zhongbao, showed surveillance footage of the SUV wobbling while making an awkward right-hand turn, causing the vehicle behind to narrowly avoid colliding with it.