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Wheelchair man gets highway ride
 A wheelchair user has been taken for a high-speed ride along a US highway after his handlebars became tangled up in the front grille of a lorry. 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. Passing motorists told police, who found the man 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 the unidentified man told them "it was quite a ride", but complained only that he had spilled his soda. The truck reached speeds of 50mph (80km/h) as it drove down the Red Arrow Highway. After several miles the driver pulled over at the depot of a trucking company where police then 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. Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-06-07 |
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