

“He said ‘You wouldn’t believe it, they had their seat belt on.’ Most people don’t wear their’s, but they had their seat belt on,” Parrish said.Many of the agents told the investigators that they had felt pressured by Pruitt to use the lights and sirens, describing him “as perpetually late and successful in convincing younger agents” to violate agency policy that they be used only in emergencies. The front seats were scooted all the way up, and Parrish asked a state trooper on the scene about whether or not the boys were wearing their seat belts. The boys appeared to take a few safety precautions, Parrish said. Parrish said he is surprised a 10-year-old boy could make it that far driving on the interstate.

“They was sitting out there like they wasn’t hurt or nothing. You don’t expect a 10-year-old to be driving a car,” Parrish told WTVR. “They just tell you they got an accident you don’t expect something like this. Parrish said the call came in like normal, but he was thrown to see two boys sitting on a guardrail near the crash site. Steve Parrish with Andrew Parrish Towing was called to the scene. The trip lasted 37 miles from the address where the Lexus is registered to the crash site.

The juveniles stated they were going to Virginia Beach,” Fluvanna deputies wrote in a press release on the incident. “The juveniles were transported back to their custodians’ home and turned over to their custody. No one was hurt in the wreck, officials said.Ī Fluvanna sheriff’s deputy took the boys from the crash site to their home in the Wilmington area of Fluvanna County, where they were safely reunited with their guardians.
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The 10-year-old boy backed into the driver who was following them and then crashed the Lexus in the median a short distance down the highway, according to witnesses. The driver followed the car 12 miles to Gum Springs, where witnesses said a police car had blocked off the exit ramp. The boys’ guardians immediately called police after they woke up to find the kids and Lexus missing, Fluvanna deputies said.Ī driver on I-64 East spotted the Lexus “driving erratically” around mile marker 148 in Louisa County. Tuesday, the 10-year-old was behind the wheel and crashed the vehicle in the median just past the Gum Springs exit in Goochland County. The boys, ages 10 and 7, made a 37-mile trip down Interstate 64 in the vehicle taken from their guardians. – Two young boys who have wrecked a Lexus sedan were trying to drive to the beach, according to the Fluvanna County Sheriff’s Office. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
