Man in Wheelchair Has 'Ride of a Lifetime'

In an incident that stunned police, a 21-year-old man did not suffer an injury after his wheelchair was lodged in the grill of a tractor-trailer truck and pushed for about four miles before he was discovered stuck on the truck's front end.

The truck about 4 p.m. Wednesday was pulling out of a gas station parking lot on Red Arrow Highway as the man was passing in front of the truck, Michigan State Police with the Paw Paw Post said. The handles on the back of the wheelchair became lodged in the truck's grill, without the driver knowing it, said Trooper Kelley Whiting.

After traveling about four miles, and at speeds of 50 mph, the truck pulled into the Ralph Moyle Trucking Co., where the man was discovered stuck in the truck's grill. The driver refused to believe there was a man in a wheelchair stuck in his truck's front end until he saw it himself, troopers said.


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rg12345 - 6/7/2007 11:52:03 AM

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funny :)

Agent009 - 6/7/2007 12:32:21 PM

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I wonder if they had to clean out the chair?

M53R - 6/8/2007 1:00:05 PM

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There is a god :)

jl3787 - 6/7/2007 12:42:56 PM

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He is really lucky fo not going underneath the truck!

At 50 mph, the little wheels from the chair could easely broke off.

Bill - 6/7/2007 1:11:51 PM

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Sounds like fun! LOL

JUGNU - 6/7/2007 2:18:11 PM

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But nice Wheel chair.Maybe Toyota.HAHA

JUGNU

Johnel - 6/7/2007 2:46:54 PM

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I guess he's the new poster boy for the slogan KEEP ON TRUCKING singing Willie Nelson's tune On The Road Again LOL.


Lucky Guy indeed.

What puzzles me wasn't there any drivers or pedestrian waving at the truck driver telling him to slow down?

AMGC55 - 6/7/2007 4:07:02 PM

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no thats 2fast 2furious

HeavyChevy - 6/7/2007 5:25:03 PM

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This is a new extreme sport

M53R - 6/8/2007 1:01:33 PM

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free ride :D