Girl, 8, drives herself 10 miles to store and goes shopping on her own

An eight-year-old girl was so eager to go shopping that she drove her mother’s car alone for more than 10 miles to get to a Target store.

The girl’s family called cops around 7am on Sunday to report that she – as well as their Nissan SUV – were missing from their Ohio home.

CCTV footage from a next-door neighbor seemed to show the girl driving away in the SUV ‘with no one but herself’, according to a Bedford Police Department incident report obtained by WKYC.

Meanwhile, cops received a call about a young child driving east on Rockside Road in a vehicle matching the description. Flock cameras detected the SUV going east on Pettibone Road.

Then cops got a call reporting that the SUV was at a car park at a Target store in Bainbridge.

The young adventurer was inside, as the police department confirmed the ‘8 year old took mommy’s car this morning and drove to Target in Bainbridge to shop’.

‘Well I’ve finally found a woman who’s in more of a hurry to shop at Target than my wife. More of hurry by 8 years,’ wrote the department on Facebook.

‘Thankfully she made it and was immediately located by Bainbridge Police.’

The girl’s relatives called the store and took her home safely, along with their SUV.

‘Not sure what she bought, or if she was even able to use her Target app to save 5%,’ joked the department.

‘We did let her finish her Frappuccino. We’re not mean.’

Police said the girl is too young to be criminally charged, Nexstar’s WJW reported.

No one was injured in the incident.

The girl did admit to cops though, that she hit a mailbox which damaged the vehicle.

It is not the only recent incident of a child driving unaccompanied.

In March, a young boy was so excited to go to school that he allegedly stole his mom’s car and tried to drive there, but crashed into a police car in Oroville, California.

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