Ananova:

Police in Bulgaria are investigating after a three year old girl "drove" her dad's car half a mile through a busy market.

Karolina Gjursel climbed into the driving seat of his automatic when her 27-year-old dad Gjunai got out at a street market in the town of Beli Lom in east Bulgaria and left his keys in the car.

His daughter turned on the engine, pressed her foot on the accelerator and drove off with her four and six-year-old cousins also in the car.

She went half a mile before ploughing into a river where the three kids were hauled out unhurt by passers-by who saw what had happened. No one else was hurt in the incident.

A police spokesman said: "It was completely irresponsible for a parent to leave children in a car with the keys in the ignition and it is a cause for concern that such a young child appeared to know not only how to start a car but to somehow drive it."