Girl Playing House Wrecks Mother’s Car on Late Trip to Store
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RAYTOWN, Mo. — An 11-year-old girl who was playing house with her 7-year-old sister decided to go grocery shopping shortly before midnight in her mother’s car, authorities said.
But the not-so-pretend trip to the store ended about four blocks from home when the car crashed into two poles outside Raytown High School in this Kansas City suburb.
“We were sound asleep when the police officer called to say that my kids were involved in a car accident,” the girls’ mother said. Police did not identify the family.
The girls’ parents went to bed Sunday night and the girls appeared to be asleep. “I said to the officer: ‘Excuse me, but my kids are in bed,’ ” the mother said.
The would-be homemakers apparently sneaked out of bed, took money and keys from their mother’s purse and drove off.
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