Spanish police pull over man in wheelchair on expressway

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2007

MADRID (AFP) — Spanish police pulled over a man in a electric wheelchair who was riding along on a expressway after he got lost while looking for a brothel, police and local media said Wednesday.

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."

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