A wheelchair user was taken on a terrifying 50- mph (80-km/h) ride for 4 minute (6.4 km) along a U.S. highway in 2007 after his handlebars became wedged in the front grill of a truck.
Ben Carpenter, a 21 year- old muscular- dystrophy sufferer, was crossing the street in Paw Paw, Michigan, when the back of his motorized wheelchair was bumped by a truck leaving a gas station, the impact trapping the chair in the radiator grill. The truck driver then drove off down the highway, unaware that he had an involuntary passenger on the front of his vehicle.
Luckily, horrified passers-by saw Carpenter's predicament and alerted the police, who eventually managed to stop the truck. Carpenter was unhurt, having been held in place in his wheelchair by a seat belt. Afterward he said: " It was quite a ride."
Incredibly, Ben Carpenter emerged unharmed from his high speed ride.... apart from losing his hat and spilling his soda.
The driver refused to believe there was a man stuck to the front of his truck... until he saw it for himself.
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