A young man has quite the story to tell after his wheelchair got lodged in the grille of a semi truck, which pushed the chair and the man inside for five miles down a road.<\/p>\n
Muscular dystrophy forced Ben Carpenter, 22, of Alamo into a wheelchair eight years ago. He was on one of his twice-weekly outings, this time in Paw Paw around 4 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n
As he crossed Red Arrow Highway in front of a semi truck, he didn’t make the traffic light. The truck driver apparently didn’t see Carpenter and a collision occurred, causing the wheelchair’s handles to become lodged in the truck’s grille.<\/p>\n
Carpenter remembers the sound. “Kind of like train cars coming together, something like that,” he told 24 Hour News 8.<\/p>\n
Unable to hear Carpenter’s cries for help over the hum of the diesel engine, the truck driver continued down Red Arrow Highway at speeds of approximately 50 mph.<\/p>\n
“It was fast, I know that. Faster than this chair was made to go,” Carpenter said.<\/p>\n
“I was thinking, the cars keep going by and nobody bothered to stop.”<\/p>\n