Kansas 9-year-old caught driving parents' truck to school after missing bus: police

A nine-year-old lad took matters into his ain hands to marque definite helium didn't miss people and drove his parents' motortruck to schoolhouse aft missing his autobus ride, constabulary confirmed.

Maize Police Sergeant Braden Blackburn told Fox News Digital that they received a telephone from a acrophobic national Wednesday greeting astir a operator who "appeared excessively young to drive." 

Blackburn said the caller said the operator appeared to beryllium 10–11 years aged and was described to beryllium successful a achromatic Chevy pickup truck.

Officers were incapable to find the truck, but yet located the motortruck and lad successful the parking batch of his simple school.

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School bus (Getty Images)

Blackburn said the lad had driven the motortruck from his location to his simple schoolhouse successful Maize, KS, a suburb of Wichita, which was astir a three-mile drive.

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Maize constabulary accidental a 9-year-old lad drove himself to schoolhouse aft missing the autobus Wednesday morning. (KAKE TV)

The lad told officers that helium missed the autobus and his dada was already astatine enactment and his ma was retired of municipality truthful helium took the motortruck to marque definite helium didn't miss school.

Blackburn noted that helium had parked the motortruck successful a stall and said "he parked amended than astir radical park."

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Police successful Maize, Kansas accidental a 9-year-old lad admitted to driving his parents' motortruck to schoolhouse aft missing his autobus ride. (Maize Police Department)

"Typically, we get these calls astir young precocious schoolhouse kids, immoderate that person conscionable gotten their driver's licenses, mostly. This was a caller 1 for us," Blackburn said. 

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Blackburn added that the boy's abbreviated thrust did not pb to immoderate collisions oregon postulation issues. 

Police officers besides did not constitute immoderate citations, Blackburn said, adding that he's "sure he's successful tons of occupation with his parents," and they volition fto the parents find however to grip it. 

Stepheny Price is simply a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. She covers topics including missing persons, homicides, nationalist transgression cases, amerciable immigration, and more. Story tips and ideas tin beryllium sent to [email protected]