A pensioner on a mobility scooter took a wrong turn and ended up driving along a motorway with a 70 mile per hour speed limit, prompting a police escort home. Police received telephone calls from concerned drivers after seeing the 89-year-old travelling along the M20 at Cheriton in Kent. "Kent Police received reports that a mobility scooter was travelling on the hard shoulder of the M20 on the London-bound carriageway," a spokeswoman said. "An 89-year-old local man had taken the wrong turning and had travelled by mistake on to the M20." The incident on Tuesday comes after a 90-year-old man on his scooter was assisted off a busy A-road in February. The pensioner had taken a wrong turn onto a carriageway while out shopping near Shoreham in West Sussex. "He said he had gone out to buy a newspaper. Somehow he must have got on to the roundabout and taken the wrong road," said a driver, who waved down the pensioner, before police arrived to help him home. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090424/tuk-elderly-scooter-rider-takes-wrong-tu-a7ad41d.html i loled
wow. buying newspaper ended up becoming a long trip along the freeway. at least the guy's scooter didn't run out of juice?
hahaha Alzheimer. seems likely the case. though sometimes I'm envious as well as hesitant towards the elderly on scooters. they can go almost anywhere they want with the push of a little stick. but in other people's pov, it's usually going really slowly (jamming traffic i would say), and it takes so much space around itself. I'm surprised the guy didn't notice something was wrong. you'd think there were something wrong if there are cars zipping by at 70mph.
better then those swedish women who kept running into lorries on the motorway.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LCQkSst5iQ&feature=related
Wait...so elderly people scooters are suppose to drive on the road?!?! We have them all over the footpath...but seriously...wtf lol. Hmmm.... elderly people racing tournament?
