wheelchair access

My friend,Michelle, told me about this on the phone last night - that a guy in a wheelchair got pulled over for being on a motorway. When asked as to why he was on the busy road, he said he got lost looking for a brothel.

Excerpt from yahoo news:

The 42-year-old man, who is tetraplegic, drove the specially-designed wheelchair which keeps him in a stretched position with the use of his chin and mouth, regional newspaper El Ideal Callego reproted.

He was stopped by police while traveling "at considerable speed" overnight Friday on the highway linking Ferrol with As Pontes in the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia, it said.

A policewoman in the town of Naron in Galicia told AFP the man was not driving at excessive velocity, "but he nonetheless posed an obvious danger to traffic and to himself."

The man was taken to a police station where he was tested for alcohol. The test turned out negative.

It might seem funny but my sympathies are with the guy. He was probably desperate. And there was no way he could have found out if the brothel was accessible in the first place.

I was swearing myself  yesterday when I was going along the narrow pavement just alongside the Cathedral when I found myself facing a lamp post and having to negotiate a 180 degree turn to go backwards towards the ramp and then proceed on the cobbled street. They were probably no pavements on the expressway.