12-year-old driver leads police chase at 100 mph & crash

[StlouisX50]

Posted 11:15 AM April 17, 2006
12-year-old driver leads police chase at 100 mph, crashes car

The Noblesville Ledger
April 17, 2006



CARMEL -- A Peru, Ind., boy remained in critical condition Monday morning at Methodist Hospital after crashing a car into a tree at 136th Street and U.S. 31.

Carmel Assistant Police Chief Tim Green said it's still unknown why the 12-year-old boy was driving a 1993 Dodge Intrepid at speeds up to 100 mph early Sunday morning.

According to the Westfield Police Department, which is investigating for criminal charges, Westfield and Hamilton County Sheriff's Department officers responded at 4:07 a.m. to a possible drunken driver traveling south on U.S. 31 from 246th Street.

Officers followed the car south from 216th Street and 196th Street and tried to stop it at U.S. 31 and Indiana 32. The car didn't stop and was traveling erratically, a press release said.

The car then went south through a red light at 161st Street and U.S. 31. It went off the road at 4:16 a.m., headed into a ditch and then went up a hill before striking a tree at 136th Street and U.S. 31.

Green said the boy, who police are not identifying, was trapped in the vehicle for a short time. He was flown to the Indianapolis hospital for treatment.

"We've had instances of where young people were driving in cars, but nothing like this and at such a high speed," Green said.

[StlouisX50]

Police are just stupid. OK the boy was driving like crap because he's 12 and does not know how to drive for one. For 2 the kid is 12 , is a 12 year old that drives a car underage , without permission going to then follow rules of the road. What morons!

[AirMoore]

Good thing no-one else got hurt... the kid deserves the tree, hope he lives to remember his mistake(s)... and is smart enough not to repeat them. Normally I am not that cynical but he was deffinantly putting other peoples lives in major risk, which is completely unacceptable.

[StlouisX50]

Awww, Maybe he was sick and needed to go to the doctor.

Or.. had a hot date?

:cry: poor kid.

[SmaartAasSaabr]

Police are just stupid. OK the boy was driving like crap because he's 12 and does not know how to drive for one. For 2 the kid is 12 , is a 12 year old that drives a car underage , without permission going to then follow rules of the road. What morons!

hee hee "driving erratically" yeah he's 12

Reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Bart and the gang rent a Crown Vic (or was it a Taurus?)... cruise control!!