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Sometimes the police think they've seen it all, but no.

This is surely what the gendarmes of the Ile d'Oléron in Charente-Maritime said to themselves on February 27 when they stopped a car… with a 10-year-old child at the wheel during a road check!

Another startling discovery was that her 32-year-old father was in the passenger seat drunk.

He had 1.34 grams of alcohol in his blood, says France Bleu, who has just revealed the story. 

On the spot, the gendarmes realize that the young boy seems to have perfect control of the manual gearbox.

The father will soon be summoned for complicity in driving without a license.

Too young, his son will not be prosecuted.

Miscellaneous

Saint-Brieuc: Checked into a state of intoxication, the motorist went to pick up his children from school

Miscellaneous

North: Call for witnesses to find a driver who hit a child

  • Miscellaneous

  • Poitou-Charentes

  • Driver's license

  • Island of Oléron

  • Drunkenness

  • Child

  • Alcohol

  • Car