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15 Jan Six-year-old drives car
A six-year-old boy in the US state of Virginia drove alone for 16 kilometres to school before losing control and crashing.
Police said the boy who had missed his school bus had only suffered minor injuries in the accident on Monday.
The boy took the keys to a 2005 Ford Taurus early on Monday while his mother was sleeping, and drove, possibly standing up, "during our busiest time of the day, when all the school buses are going, passing two or three cars at a time, and went over a bridge and almost made it to school" before striking a utility pole, said a police spokesman.
"He just had a strong desire to go school even after the crash," so that he wouldn't miss the school breakfast or gym class, police Sergeant Tom Cunningham said.
The boy was taken to a local hospital, treated and released in time to make it to Northumberland Elementary School. Both parents were arrested and charged with child endangerment.
15 Jan Man takes son's place in exam
A 54-year-old Japanese man was caught impersonating his 20-year-old son to take an exam, even getting a perm to make himself look younger, an official said on Wednesday.
The father, who runs a medication distribution company, sat a test for a license to handle over-the-counter drugs so that his son could work with him, said an official in Nara prefecture in western Japan.
An examiner noticed that the man looked unusually old, said local government official Masaaki Nakamori.
"A 20-year-old and a 54-year-old are aged differently. But he looked like the photo on the exam admission card," Nakamori said.
The father, whose name was not released, earned his own license last year, taking the exam with a photo showing him with straight hair and glasses.
"This time, he curled his hair and did not wear his glasses," Nakamori said.
The man put his face down intently near the desk as he took the exam, he said.
"When the test monitor approached him, he admitted it and apologised. He said, from the application process to actual testing, he did it all himself without telling his son," Nakamori said.
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