Man arrested after viral video shows child steering car on busy Hong Kong road

A screencap of the video that went viral on Sunday.

Photo: Facebook/tuenmunlocals Hong Kong police have arrested a man on suspicion of dangerous driving in connection with an online video allegedly showing him letting a child on his lap steer a car on a busy road.

The force on Monday said they had tracked down the 22-year-old man believed to be the driver seen in the video that went viral a day earlier.

The footage, published in a Tuen Mun community group on social media, shows the child sitting on the driver’s lap and steering the wheel for more than a minute as cars pass the vehicle on Heung Sze Wui Road.

The man was arrested by officers from the force’s New Territories North traffic investigation unit in Tai Po on Monday morning.

The suspect is being held in police custody on suspicion of dangerous driving.

Police did not disclose the child’s relationship to the man.

Under the Road Traffic Ordinance, a driver is considered to be driving dangerously if their actions are “far below what would be expected of a competent and careful driver”.

Such actions would need to be considered an obvious danger by a competent and careful driver.

The offence is punishable by up to three years in jail and a HK$25,000 fine (US$3,190).

In 2023, a 71-year-old man was arrested for dangerous driving after he allowed his five-year-old grandson to steer a vehicle in a car park at a private housing estate in Tsuen Wan.

The white delivery van was seen circling the car park slowly, then driving forward for another 10 seconds before stopping in a parking space.

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