Police have charged a 27-year-old Dandenong woman with a string of offences following an incident in Pakenham on 26 November where a child was observed on the bonnet of a moving vehicle.
Pakenham local Stephen Pretty released a video on Sunday 26 November on social media showing a boy riding on the front of the car’s windscreen at about noon.
The driver then pulls the car over, with the child then seen climbing back inside the vehicle through the sunroof.
The woman presented herself to a police station on Monday 27 November and has been charged with reckless conduct endangering life, reckless conduct endangering serious injury, driving in a dangerous manner, driving at a dangerous speed, reckless driving, careless driving and using an unregistered motor vehicle.
She has been bailed to appear in Dandenong Magistrates’ Court on 14 February 2024.
The woman told 7News that she pulled over as soon as she saw the boy had climbed out of the sunroof.
“I understand the seriousness of the situation and take full responsibility,” she said.
Mr Pretty can be heard admonishing the woman in the video.
“You shouldn’t be doing it, he’s hanging out the windscreen,” he said.
“What if you’d run him over?
“He falls off and he goes under those wheels, he’s dead mate.
“He should have a seatbelt on the whole time.”
The woman can be heard apologising for her actions in the video.
“My bad,” she said.
