Comments on: Wheelchair DUI http://accessibility.net.nz/blog/wheelchair-dui/ Your web accessibility expert Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:21:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Elisabeth http://accessibility.net.nz/blog/wheelchair-dui/#comment-736 Elisabeth Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:32:45 +0000 http://accessibility.net.nz/?p=149#comment-736 In a perfect world, there would be common sense. There would be equality of access. I don't think drinking while wheeling constitutes DUI though clearly a person in a power chair could hurt others if he ran into them while being stoned. Thus he could be punished for reckless behaviour, maybe. The story of the mother from Ohio is really sad. But then, what can you expect from the Roller Coaster capital of the world? In a perfect world, there would be common sense. There would be equality of access.

I don't think drinking while wheeling constitutes DUI though clearly a person in a power chair could hurt others if he ran into them while being stoned. Thus he could be punished for reckless behaviour, maybe.
The story of the mother from Ohio is really sad. But then, what can you expect from the Roller Coaster capital of the world?

]]> By: Peter http://accessibility.net.nz/blog/wheelchair-dui/#comment-734 Peter Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:07:27 +0000 http://accessibility.net.nz/?p=149#comment-734 Great story. In some cases a vehicle should be a vehicle whatever its means of propulsion and drunk or not, dangerous driving or pushing of this vehicle should be repremanded. Example: A mother pushing a baby carriage. I once came very close to killing a child as her mother was pushing the carriage. The mother did indeed stop at the kerb but I was suddenly confronted with an infant right in front of my car. Great story. In some cases a vehicle should be a vehicle whatever its means of propulsion and drunk or not, dangerous driving or pushing of this vehicle should be repremanded. Example: A mother pushing a baby carriage. I once came very close to killing a child as her mother was pushing the carriage. The mother did indeed stop at the kerb but I was suddenly confronted with an infant right in front of my car.

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