A motor mad three-year-old German boy has crashed his father's car twice in four days.
Police in the western town of Borken say the boy used a ladder to steal the keys to his father's car.
After starting it up, he ploughed it into a nearby car, causing about 5,000 euros of damage but escaping unharmed.
When a television crew came to their home in the town of Bocholt near the Dutch border to reconstruct the incident four days later, the young lad took matters into his own hands.
Sitting behind the wheel with the car key given to him during filming, his urge to drive overtook him again.
"The father was with the television crew," Borken police spokesman Frank Rentmeister said.
"The car was in gear and the boy just started up and drove into the car ahead."
The boy was not hurt but chalked up further damages totalling about 1,000 euros.
Police are now investigating the father for criminal negligence.
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