Man's 50mph wheelchair ride

Ananova
6/8/07
Man's 50mph wheelchair ride

A disabled man was taken for a 50mph ride along a US highway after his wheelchair got jammed in the grille of a lorry.

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The back of the 21-year-old man's wheelchair was scooped up as he passed in front of a lorry leaving a petrol station, Michigan State Police said.

The truck driver drove off, completely unaware that he had a new passenger. Other motorists raised the alarm and used their mobile phones to call police.

"You are not going to believe this, (but) there is a semi pushing a guy in a wheelchair on Red Arrow Highway," one caller said.

After four miles, the driver pulled over at a truck stop where police caught up and told him about the man on his front end. He refused to believe there was a man in a wheelchair stuck to the front of his truck until he saw it for himself, police said

The man was unhurt - but still attached to the front of the truck. He had been kept in his wheelchair by a seatbelt.

Police in the town of Paw Paw, Michigan, said he told them "it was quite a ride", and complained only that he had spilled his soda.