text: A 6-year-old boy with autism is back with his family in Westchester County after he was found driving a motorized toy car on the Bronx River Parkway over the weekend.Officers found the boy on the mini ATV just after 7 p.m. Sunday in Mount Vernon."We just blocked it in, was like a box and he was right in the middle," said Ana Rubio, a Good Samaritan.Ana Rubio still gets emotional as she speaks about the little boy she held in her arms, along the Bronx River Parkway Sunday night."He was like, 'I need to go home, mom, mom,' all he kept saying was 'mom,'" Rubio said.Rubio didn't know the child but thank goodness she and several others including her husband, Joel, were there to help."The first guy who came in contact with the boy, he was almost shaking, he had goose bumps, saying, 'I almost hit the kid,'" said Joel Reyes, a Good Samaritan.The Good Samaritans are now being called angels.Investigators say several drivers slowed down to block the child from other traffic.They spotted the 6-year-old little boy, riding a toy ATV on the Bronx River Parkway, in the far right lane with cars whizzing by, going at least 45 mph."It seemed like the child wanted to continue driving, he was trying to merge on the middle lane of the highway," Rubio said.This twisted tale began roughly two miles from the parkway.Police say the little boy, who is autistic, was with his grandmother near a park on South 7th Avenue.He slipped away, got on his blue battery powered toy, and took off.Witnesses say the boy's mother showed up at the park and frantically start calling for her son."You saw kids going back and forth and I asked them 'Did you find him?' and they said 'No,'" said Genoveva Burgos, a witness.The boy was heading to the parkway, and it's a long journey for such a little guy.As his mother was reporting him missing, police began getting a ton of 911 calls about a boy on an ATV on the parkway.By then, Rubio and several others had safely gotten the 6-year-old to the side of the parkway."It seemed like he didn't know he was on a highway, he just wanted to go home," Rubio said.Then her heart skipped another beat."When he saw the police officer he was ready to run onto the highway but I grabbed him and hugged him and said, 'we're going to help you, the officer will take you home,'" Rubio said.The boy was taken to a hospital for observation and found to be OK. ||||| The Blue miniature battery-powered ATV that a 6-year-old autistic boy drove onto the northbound ramp of the Bronx River Parkway near Oak Street in Mount Vernon Sunday evening. The child was safely taken off the road after three motorists slowed their vehicles to surround and protect the boy from other vehicles that might not have seen him. (Photo: Westchester County police) 
   
   An autistic 6-year-old boy drove a miniature battery-powered ATV onto the Bronx River Parkway and was pulled over by good Samaritans on Sunday night, authorities said. 
   
   The trip started off in a city park around 7 p.m. when family members lost track of the boy, who rode off in the toy vehicle. 
   
   "They realized pretty quickly he was gone but couldn't lay eyes on him," Kieran O'Leary, spokesman for the Westchester County police, said of the Mount Vernon family. 
   
   Relatives reported the boy missing to Mount Vernon police. 
   
   At about 7:40 p.m., Westchester County police started receiving 911 calls about the unlicensed driver traveling in his vehicle — made popular by the toy brand Power Wheels — on the parkway. 
   
   He had driven to Oak Street, from a park about a mile away on South Seventh Avenue, and taken the ramp onto the northbound parkway, police said. 
   
   The young driver didn't make it very far. 
   
   Good Samaritan: 'You could barely see him driving by' 
   
   Three motorists slowed their vehicles to surround the boy and protect him from other vehicles that might not see him, O'Leary said. Someone was able to get out of their vehicle, and grab the boy and his ride off the parkway. 
   
   "These good Samaritans got him to the safety of the side of the road," the police spokesman said. Police officers arrived shortly after. 
   
   The child was taken to Montefiore Mount Vernon Hospital for observation and found to be OK. He was reunited with his family. 
   
   The Blue miniature battery-powered ATV that a 6-year-old autistic boy drove onto the northbound ramp of the Bronx River Parkway near Oak Street in Mount Vernon Sunday evening. The child was safely taken off the road after three motorists slowed their vehicles to surround and protect the boy from other vehicles that might not have seen him. (Photo: Westchester County Police) 
   
   The incident is under investigation. 
   
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target: – Drivers on the Bronx River Parkway were a little surprised to see a 6-year-old driving his miniature ATV beside them last night. The boy's mom was even more surprised to discover him missing. It started on a family trip to a park in Mount Vernon, New York, where the autistic boy rode off unnoticed at around 7pm, the Journal News reports. "They realized pretty quickly he was gone but couldn't lay eyes on him," a police spokesman said. Bystanders say the mother was frantically calling for her boy as kids ran back and forth looking for him, 7Online reports. Soon he had zoomed onto the northbound parkway and was even trying to merge into the middle lane, police and witnesses say. So drivers boxed him in and grabbed him just as police arrived. "He was like, 'I need to go home, mom, mom,' all he kept saying was 'mom,'" said Ana Rubio, one of the drivers. Another was said to be shaking with goosebumps, telling people, "I almost hit a kid." As for the boy, he seemingly "didn't know he was on a highway, he just wanted to go home," said Rubio. He was taken to a hospital first and "found to be OK," reports 7Online, but police are still investigating. (Read about an autistic boy allegedly kept in a cage.)