No one was injured in Bedford escapade but child reportedly told officers she ‘struck a mailbox’ on her trip

An eight-year-old girl in Ohio took her mother’s car and drove for more than 20 minutes along busy roads to get to a local Target store – where she promptly went shopping.

The drama unfolded when Bedford police got a missing-child call that was followed up by another call “concerning a small child driving east on Rockside Road”, local TV station WJW reported.