Hamilton, Ont. senior charged after teaching 11-year-old to chauffeur her car

An opportunistic senior seeking a helper tried to start her young neighbour out early in a career as her chauffeur, police say.

The Canadian Press reported that a 68-year-old woman in Hamilton has been giving her neighbour driving lessons. How sweet, you might say.

But in her eagerness to teach the boy — an 11-year-old — she might have gotten ahead of herself. The legal age to drive in Ontario is 16. Police charged the woman for letting the boy drive her car without a license and for travelling in a vehicle without insurance, according to the Canadian Press.

And in the end, it seems her motives were more self-serving than trying to pass on a few life skills. Police told the news wire the woman was teaching her neighbour because she wanted him to drive her around on errands.

Interestingly, CBC reported police stopped the car because the driver looked quite young, not because he was driving erratically. Police brought the kid home to his parents.

A much younger boy also had an unfortunate introduction to driving recently after he crashed a car into a Toronto McDonald's. Police told CBC his father left the child in the driver's seat, with his mother in the car, and he shifted the gear to drive.

He was only four years old.