Near Death Experience

I'm glad you are okay, boy, what an arm workout huh?

Hello dear cripfemme. I am so sorry that you had such a scary experience, but I am very happy that you are ok from it and are still enjoying your mylotting time with us friends here. I hope that you are now having a good sleep after a nice drink to help get rid of the scary scene. Take care and have a good sleep.

It can be scary to travel on a highway unless you are in a car. I am so pleased that you didn't get hurt at all. I think that vans should have been arranged for wheelchair users to get to the Abilities Expo. I think that roads without a sidewalk can be difficult to travel along. I missed a bus and decided to walk along a highway with my dog one dark evening. It was so frightening and I will never do that sort of thing again. Take care and I hope that you had a relaxing sleep after your awful experience.

Wow, you are braver than I would have been. I am glad they finally found you a van to finish taking you. That would have been so scary. How was the Expo after you got there? Was it pretty neat? I would love to go to one, but there hasn't been any close.

The rules applying to Interstates/freeways prohibit anything but motorized vehicles (and mopeds don't count--and not even motorized wheelchairs).

That means no pedestrians (on or off of skateboards/skates), bicyclists, arm-operated wheelchairs.

Most regular streets and roads allow for pedestrians (on the berm facing the traffic) and bicyclists (riding in same direction as the traffic). Skateboarders & skaters might or might not be allowed. Mopeds are allowed in a limited number of places.

Although your wheelchair is the way that you "walk," you would probably be classed the same as a bicyclist where you ride with the traffic.

Hope you never have to do this again, but, if you do, you should probably put a slow-moving vehicle sign on the back of your wheelchair along with one of those pennant-style flags on a tall, skinny pole.

If the highway has a berm, it would probably be better to roll along on that instead of right out there with the traffic.

Anyway, I'm glad that you survived your experience--and that it has served as a wake-up call to show just how much of a challenge it is for people in wheelchairs to get around.