German police detain father and four-year-old son for driving unsecured child while smoking on highway
Police have stopped a man in Germany who was operating an vehicle without a license, carrying his 4 year old daughter across the lap of her seatbelt. The incident occurred at Unterhaching near Munich where officers found both individuals detained after discovering that she had been sitting unsafely and holding cigarettes to smoke on board with him driving unlicensed
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1A German father was stopped by police on the Autobahn while driving without a driver's license.
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2The 4-year-old child in his lap had no seatbelt and held an unlit cigarette.
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A German police officer stopped a father and his four-year-old son on the Autobahn in Unterhaching after discovering that both were driving without seat belts, with the child smoking.
— (Derstandard.at)Police intercepted an unlicensed driver who was transporting their young daughter across Germany's A8 highway while she smoked a cigarette and sat unsafely between his legs on her father's lap. The vehicle lacked both valid driving licenses for two adults, proper seat belts or child seats.
— (Rss.sueddeutsche.de)"The police stopped the man because he was not wearing an adult safety belt while sitting in front of a four-year-old who had no carseat and smoked with her father."
— (Kleinezeitung.at)