A SECOND teenager has been charged after a BMW was stolen and driven dangerously through the streets of Southampton.

Yesterday, a 14-year-old boy from Southampton was charged by police for a list of offences including assault, criminal damage and dangerous driving.

Now police say they have charged a second boy.

The 16-year-old, also from Southampton, faces a charge of aggravated vehicle taking, driving a motor vehicle without a license, driving without insurance and making off without payment.

It comes after police launched a city-wide search to trace a black BMW X3, which had been seen driving dangerously throughout Southampton on Monday night.

It was later found on Tuesday evening by officers.

The car had sustained damage to the front and back and was seen in Millbrook, Lordshill and Coxford.

Since then a number of arrests have been made in connection with the incident.

Hampshire Constabulary confirmed that a 14-year-old boy from Southampton was arrested on Wednesday, May 23.

He was later charged with aggravated vehicle taking, assault a person thereby occasioning them actual bodily harm, criminal damage, driving a motor vehicle dangerously, driving a motor vehicle without a license, driving without insurance and use threatening and abusive words to cause harassment and distress.

Police also arrested a third Southampton boy, 17, on suspicion of being carried in a motor vehicle taken without the owner’s consent.

He has been released but remain under investigation.

Anyone with information can call 101 and quote reference number 44180188676, or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.