A nine-year-old boy has been caught driving his drunk father to a bottle store.
Officers found the child behind the wheel of a car in the town of Mosgiel near Dunedin on New Zealand's South Island about 7.30pm on Saturday.
Police said the boy's father, 32, had asked his son to drive him to the store and was drunk in the passenger seat when their car was stopped.
A nine-year-old boy has been caught by police driving his drunk father to a bottle store (file image)
No charges have yet been laid but the investigation into the traffic stop is ongoing.
The legal driving age in New Zealand is 16.
Police had stopped the boy as part of its alcohol prevention team targeting drunk drivers on the unofficial New Zealand holiday 'Crate Day'.
The event was launched by the country's The Rock radio station as a publicity stunt in 2009 to encourage Kiwis to buy a crate of beer to celebrate the first Saturday of the summer.
The day though has become increasingly associated each year with a spike in domestic violence and alcohol-related crime.
The child was found behind the wheel of a car in the satellite town of Mosgiel near Dunedin on New Zealand's South Island (file image)
Christchurch Hospital emergency department doctor Scott Pearson said there were 23 alcohol-related injury admissions on Crate Day 2018 compared to about five on a normal Saturday.
'Not everybody will drink a whole crate, but advertising and marketing seems to support that level of drinking,' he told Stuff.
Another driver in Dunedin was caught with a blood alcohol level three times over the legal limit on Saturday night.