POLICE are investigating a YouTube video which showed a baby at the wheel of a moving car, as featured in a Star exclusive last Tuesday.
The YouTube video was removed from the website mid-last week as community outrage began to build over its content.
The video was uploaded last month and depicted a child, aged around one, sitting on the lap of an older person driving the vehicle.
The adult could be seen taking his own hands off the steering wheel and making the youngster steer instead.
The YouTube users who posted the video described themselves as “boys from Melbourne’s West’ on their account.
Other videos they made showed them in areas including St Albans, Sydenham, Hillside, Caroline Springs, Taylors Lakes and Maribyrnong.
At a press conference last week, Acting Brimbank Police Inspector Tim O’Connor said officers were investigating the video.
Acting Insp O’Connor said police still needed to establish where the offence was committed and whether the car’s driver lived outside Brimbank.
“It’s dangerous for the people concerned, the child sitting in the driver’s seat,” he said.
“From a policing perspective, you just can’t work out why someone would do such a thing.
“It appears there was no seatbelt on the child.”
Insp O’Connor said the driver could possibly face charges including conduct endangering a person.
Insp O’Connor also said police were yet to work out what language was spoken in the footage but they believed the car depicted was a Mercedes.
Anyone with information can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
