西部落：九岁女童上演警匪追逐

Girl, 9, drives into cop car

A 9-year-old girl took her grandmother's car and led police on a chase at speeds over 90 mph. WKRN's Teresa Weakley reports.

This video taken at 3:30 a.m. shows the nine-year-old girl that led police on a chase from Bell Road in Antioch down I-24 to Smyrna. You can see her alert and pointing around and awe¹ of what's going on around her. Police say her grandmother called to report her missing and that her car keys were also missing.

"The girl we found out had actually taken the grandmother's Ford² Focus."

The grandmother also told the police that her granddaughter has autism.

"You know it's kind of gut-wrenching, because we want her to stop, and I think if she knows what's right and wrong, we know she would stop."

Six minutes after the call came in, the police spotted³ the young girl on Bell Road. Police chased and then followed the young girl until she finally stopped in the middle of the Interstate.

"She'd actually stay stopped, the police car had already been put in park miles she was exiting. She put it, she floored the vehicle and she struck the passenger car, the patrol car."

This girl's family says that they had no idea that she even knew how to operate the vehicle, they were taken by complete surprise when all of this happened. She is now back at home safe with her family. And police say she will not be charged with anything.

1 awe   

n.敬畏，惊惧；vt.使敬畏，使惊惧

参考例句：

• The sight filled us with awe.这景色使我们大为惊叹。
• The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。

2 Ford   

n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过

参考例句：

• They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
• If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。

3 spotted   

adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的

参考例句：

• The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
• Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。