YouTube family video of 7-year-old boy driving a car urges Quebec investigation

Sergeant Chantal Mackels said that a YouTube video, showing a 7-year-old boy at the wheel of a sport utility vehicle with his family cheering him on, urged a probe by Quebec Provincial Police and family services on Monday.

Since the video was given the father's enthusiastic narration, including their location in Quebec and the boy's first name, so it wasn`t very difficult to find the family. "We now know who the person is," Mackels said, noting charges are still being worked out.

During the video, apparently shot by the boy's father from the SUV's passenger seat as the boy drives, the woman in the back seat calls out the father's name, urging him not to distract the child. The father also panned the camera into the back seat of the vehicle to show the mother, with an unrestrained young girl on her lap, and an older boy.

Furthermore, Mackels added that police are considering both criminal charges and traffic violations and have also contacted the province's department of child protection to investigate the family. Mackels said she's never come across a case where the evidence of children driving under the legal age of 16 years before is supplied online, by the perpetrator's proud father.