Utah girls aged 4 and 9 drive car to 'swim in the ocean'

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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