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Woman charged after having daughter, 9, drive home from party

THE CANADIAN PRESS

PERTH, Ont. _ Police say a 35-year-old mother who was concerned she might be too tipsy to drive home from a weekend function has been charged with letting her nine-year-old daughter take the wheel.

Lanark County provincial police say an officer stopped a car Sunday night after realizing the driver appeared to be a young child.

The officer, who stopped the car near Perth, noted the slow rate of speed as the car approached the cruiser.

Police determined the child was driving the car home for her mother, who was in the passenger seat.

A breath test indicated the woman's blood-alcohol level was within the legal limit.

Police charged the woman with careless driving under the Highway Traffic Act.

``They were almost home,' Const. Paige Whiting said Tuesday