Hong Kong police have arrested a man on suspicion of dangerous driving in connection with an online video allegedly showing him allowing a child on his lap to steer a car on a busy road.
The force said on Monday that it 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 Tuen Mun 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. He was 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 the way they drive falls “far below what would be expected of a competent and careful driver” and if their actions are deemed an obvious danger.
