12歲男孩欲駕車橫穿澳洲 開了1300公里才被發現

A 12-year-old boy who was apparently trying to drive across Australia has been stopped by police 1,300km (800 miles) into his journey.

日前，一名試圖駕車橫穿澳大利亞的12歲男孩，在行駛了1300公里（摺合800英里）後被警方攔下。

The boy was pulled over in Broken Hill in the New South Wales outback last Saturday after a patrol noticed the car's bumper dragging on the ground.

上週六，這名男孩在新南威爾士州境內的布拉肯山附近被攔了下來，當時一輛巡視警車發現他的車的保險槓拖在了地面上。

Police said the boy had been attempting to drive 4,000km from Kendall in NSW to Perth, Western Australia.

警方表示，該男孩試圖從新南威爾士州的肯德爾開往4000公里外澳大利亞西部的珀斯。

He was arrested and taken to Broken Hill police station. His parents, who had reported him missing, picked him up last Sunday.

隨後，該男孩被警方逮捕，並被帶到了布拉肯山派出所。之前報告了他失蹤的父母，已於上週日把他接走了。

"He'd taken the family car," Det Insp Kim Fehon told the Australian Associated Press. "His parents reported him missing immediately after he left home, so they were looking for him."

高級警官金·費洪在接受《澳大利亞聯合新聞報》採訪時表示：“這名男孩開走了家裏的車子。他的父母在他離家後馬上就報告了他的失蹤，並一直在找他。”

It is unclear how the boy was able to make the journey, alone and unnoticed, across all of New South Wales and through remote and often hostile terrain.

目前還不清楚該男孩是如何單獨橫穿新南威爾士州各地偏遠、困難的地形而沒被發現的。

A NSW Police spokesman told the BBC it was possible he could face charges under the Young Offenders Act.

新南威爾士警方一位發言人向BBC透露，根據青少年犯罪法例，他可能會面臨指控。