Father arrested for allegedly allowing 13-year-old daughter to drive resulting in crash in Mesa

PHOENIX — A father was arrested on Friday night after he allegedly allowed his young daughter to drive and she crashed into a building in Mesa, authorities said.

According to the Mesa Police Department, officers were dispatched at 9 p.m. after a vehicle drove off the roadway and into a building near Dobson and Baseline roads.

Photos of the crash shared by police identified the building as a My Arizona Lawyers office.

Police said that the driver of the car was identified as a 13-year-old girl and that the passenger was her father.

Neither of them were injured and no one was taken to the hospital.

According to police, the father was arrested and booked into jail on charges of endangerment and criminal damage.

No other information was available.

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