8-year-old Ohio girl drives SUV on solo Target run

BEDFORD, Ohio (AP) — An 8-year-old woman took an SUV from her Ohio location and drove for miles to a shop wherever she was later recovered unharmed, authorities said.

The girl, whose sanction was not released, and nan conveyance — a 2020 Nissan Rogue — were reported missing astir 9 a.m. Sunday, Bedford constabulary said. Family members said they had past seen nan woman astatine nan residence astir 2 hours earlier.

As constabulary launched an investigation, they learned a mini kid had been spotted driving a conveyance connected a adjacent road, but that conveyance could not beryllium located. The SUV yet was recovered a short clip later successful nan parking batch of a Target shop successful Bainbridge, which is astir 13 miles (21 kilometers) from her home.

Police soon recovered nan kid by herself wrong nan store. She told officers she had struck a mailbox while driving, but thing else. Authorities did not opportunity why she had decided to recreation to nan shop aliases supply further specifications astir her trip.

The woman is excessively young to beryllium charged criminally, constabulary said. It wasn’t clear Monday if immoderate charges would beryllium revenge successful nan matter, which remains nether investigation.