Police Discover Why Driver Was So Erratic: He Was 9 Years Old

The car was parked in an Oroville intersection, then it sped away, then it hit a CHP car. The driver was a boy trying to drive himself to school.

The CHP officer said the boy backed into him slowly. California Highway Patrol

Police found a sedan parked in the middle of an intersection in Oroville, California, at about 9:20 a.m. March 27. But what happened next surprised them.

CHP officers say the scene was “straight out of a movie” as it unfolded at the intersection of Grand Avenue and 4th Street in the small town about 70 miles north of Sacramento.