Video shows a 4yrs old boy driving a Mercedes SUV weaving in and out of traffic on a busy highway in Moscow (Details, pics)

Terrifying footage of a four-year-old boy driving at up to 60mph on a busy highway has caused shock and fury online.

The unidentified child is seen swerving across fast-flowing traffic in the Mercedes-Benz SUV in Moscow.

At one point he speeds past a truck and a tanker lorry before trying to overtake when the fast lane is not clear. The video was posted by a Moscow-based father called Islam, who is believed to originally be from Dagestan.

The child sits on the knee of a glamorous woman called Ariana, apparently his aunt.

At some points she grabs the steering wheel with one hand, at others the young child drives unaided on the crowded ring road.

The father, 27, is filming the law-breaking scene from the rear seat of the Gelandewagen.

Faced with criticism of the dangerous stunt by the Moscow media, the aunt responded that such antics on busy roads were perfectly normal.

Hr boasts: 'Look, bro, driving a Gelendwagen.''I do not see anything bad. Everyone did this on their parent's laps in their childhood.

'The video was posted on Majorka, an online community featuring 'rich kids' who break all the rules.

Wealthy Ariana is fond of posing with her SUV but Russians were outraged by the footage.

One critic commented: 'No brains. God forbid they crashed and killed the child. How would they sleep then?'Another wrote: 'Something wrong with their brains... I feel sorry for the child.'

There were demands for the parents to be 'stripped of their rights to raise the child' after such an 'irresponsible act'.

One viewer wrote: 'If someone crashed into you, the child will fly out through the windscreen on to the road - is this really worth it?'

Moscow's road police have launched a check into the incident, it was announced today.