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Police operation in North Rhine-Westphalia (symbolic image)
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A nine-year-old was traveling on an e-quad at more than 40 kilometers per hour in Siegen at the weekend. A neighbor had confronted the child when he was driving through a residential street with screeching tires, police said on Monday.
He was 18 years old and was allowed to drive the device, the boy claimed. Because the neighbor doubted this, he called the police. As it turned out, the vehicle has a throttle to 6 km/h, but it was switched off. Without restriction, the device drives 47 kilometers per hour.
The father is said to have allowed the boy to drive on his own property, but not on the road. Although the nine-year-old is not under the age of criminal responsibility, the investigators were still examining the role of the parents. Quads are mostly all-terrain, four-wheeled motorcycles.
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