AMHERST — An Amherst woman is facing a criminal charge after allegedly allowing her 12-year-old daughter to drive her pickup truck on a public way Friday afternoon, police said.
At 4:15 p.m. Friday, police were notified by another parent that, about 10 minutes earlier, a girl was seen driving a half-ton pickup truck to a bus stop in the area of Olympia Drive and Village Park Apartments.
Other children at the bus stop told that parent that the girl is in seventh grade, and likely isn’t old enough to drive, according to a narrative on the emergency dispatch logs.
Officers responding to the area a short time later stopped the vehicle and confirmed the driver is 12, but had been given permission by her mother to operate the truck as a “prank.”
The mother is being summoned to Eastern Hampshire District Court in Belchertown on a charge of permitting the unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.
