The three-year-old Ngaruawahia boy was caught "driving" a car down the town's main strip early Sunday evening. "This is 5pm on a Sunday - a high risk time, in a high risk location with a three-year-old on her lap. A mother was caught drunk, in the driver's seat, with her three-year-old in her lap turning the wheel. Police had spotted a car swerving across the median line on Great South Road and into the path of an oncoming patrol car. Hassan said had the patrol car not been there it could have been fatal.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 09, 2016 05:18 UTC