Driving can sometimes be a dangerous activity when not done properly, which is why only those who have reached the age of 17 can drive a vehicle in Malaysia.
A now-viral video recently showed a young boy taking his siblings out for a ride but was stopped from going further by a female resident in KL.
12yo M’sian boy caught driving in KL with siblings
In a more than a minute long clip posted by @update11111 on X (formerly Twitter), it showed a white Perodua Viva speeding over a speedbump at a residential area.
This inadvertently shocked a woman who was a local resident, where she whipped out her phone and began recording while saying, “Do you see this?” repeatedly in Mandarin.
Eventually, she managed to get the car to stop and when she told the driver to wind down the window, she was baffled to see a young boy behind the wheel along with two other younger children in the passenger’s seat.
She then asked the boy how old he was, to which he replied by saying “Form 1”. At the woman’s repeated insistence to say the age out loud, he finally admitted that he was 13 years old.
He also seemed to be aware that what he was doing was illegal as he acknowledged that the legal driving age in Malaysia was 17.
The woman then asked how old his siblings were and was told that they were 6 years old. She was also shocked to see that neither of them had their seatbelts on.
Told boy to head to police station
Not wanting anything unfortunate to happen, the woman told the boy that she would be making a police report at the police station over the matter.
She also chided the boy for letting his siblings sit on the car’s bonnet, and when he protested by saying that they refused to listen to him, the woman brushed him off by saying it was his responsibility, adding that this wasn’t the first time she had caught him speeding in the area.
When the boy told the woman to meet up with his father, the latter said that they could do so by meeting at the police station.
Boy’s father quizzed by police
NST later reported that the boy’s father has since been questioned by police at the Sepang Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department office after he was identified to be the owner of the car.
Sepang police chief Assistant Commissioner Wan Kamarul Azran Wan Yusof said the incident took place at Taman Putra Impiana, Puchong at around 8pm last Sunday (Jul 28) and police questioned the man and his kids the next day.
It is now being probed under Section 39(1) of the Road Transport Act for underage driving.
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