A five-year-old Czech boy stole his parents' car and drove it for a mile before crashing into a wall.

Miroslav Novak took the keys to his parents' car in the middle of the night, got in, started it up, reversed out of the drive and then took off for a joy ride.

He managed to drive the car for a mile around his home town of Mimon before crashing into the front wall of a house.

He was found hiding behind a tree in a nearby park by police who were called out by his worried parents when they woke up to find him and the car missing.

He had reportedly put two cushions on the driver's seat so he could see out of the window of the automatic car.

Police said that he was too young to be prosecuted.

But spokeswoman Ivana Balakova said: "We have asked social services to investigate and find out how it is that a five year-old boy knows how to drive a car."