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WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) Two Utah girls, age 9 and 4, were uninjured Wednesday after they took a car and crashed into a tractor trailer as they tried to drive to California for a beach vacation, police said.
The driver of the truck also was unhurt.
The parents of the girls were asleep when they took the keys, West Jordan police Detective Scott List told KUTV. They were awakened when police told them about the crash.
The children told police they wanted to take a beach vacation.
The crash happened when the 9-year-old driver sideswiped one driver, then swerved into the path of the truck on a highway frontage road in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Valley City.
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image captionThe girls crashed head-on into a semi-trailer lorry but were not hurt
Utah police said they got quite a surprise when they found a nine-year-old girl driving a car with her four-year-old sister in the passenger seat early on Wednesday morning.
The sisters told officers they were heading to California because they wanted to swim in the ocean .
They drove on two major roads, hit another car and then crashed head-on into a lorry, police said on Twitter.
The sisters were both wearing their seatbelts and were not hurt.
Officers got quite a surprise when they responded to an accident this morning & discovered the driver was a 9yo girl. The young girl & her 4yo sister apparently snagged the keys to the family car while their parents were sleeping & set out on their own summer adventure. #wvcpic.twitter.com/evHq3DiBRC WVC Police (@WVCPD) June 2, 2021