Another Amazing Wheelchair Story

Patrick James
Writer / Former GOOD Managing Editor

June 7, 2007 • 1:57 pm PDT
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A wheelchaired man gets stuck to the grill of a semi-truck--which proceeds to careen down the road at 50 miles an hour--and he lives.

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