Hong Kong police have arrested a man on suspicion of dangerous driving in connection with an online video allegedly showing him letting a child on his lap steer a car on a busy road.
The force on Monday said they had tracked down the 22-year-old man believed to be the driver seen in the video that went viral a day earlier.
The footage, published in a Tuen Mun community group on social media, shows the child sitting on the driver’s lap and steering the wheel for more than a minute as cars pass the vehicle on Heung Sze Wui Road.
The man was arrested by officers from the force’s New Territories North traffic investigation unit in Tai Po on Monday morning. The suspect is being held in police custody on suspicion of dangerous driving.
Police did not disclose the child’s relationship to the man.
Under the Road Traffic Ordinance, a driver is considered to be driving dangerously if their actions are “far below what would be expected of a competent and careful driver”.
