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VIDEO: Barcelona wheelchair user weaving in traffic, passes cars

A wheelchair-bound man in Spain has been caught on camera weaving in and out of Barcelona traffic and moving faster than surrounding vehicles. The street racer was cruising along Barcelona's Carrer de Muntaner when a motorcycle passenger took the video. You Tube videos of speeding wheel chair users are becoming more common. But so too are videos of people who generally want more mobility out their wheelchair. So click here to see a more sensible way to live life in your wheelchair in the fast lane. Appa
July 25, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
A wheelchair-bound man in Spain has been caught on camera weaving in and out of Barcelona traffic and moving faster than surrounding vehicles.

The street racer was cruising along Barcelona's Carrer de Muntaner when a motorcycle passenger took the video.

You Tube videos of speeding wheel chair users are becoming more common. But so too are videos of people who generally want more mobility out their wheelchair. So %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal click here Visit a video page false http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NUjnIeAlJg false false%> to see a more sensible way to live life in your wheelchair in the fast lane. Apparently, this road-touring adaptor comes in three “sizes, apparently – city (70kph), highway (90kph) and freeway (120kph). Perhaps road builders will in the near future have to design in dedicated wheelchair lanes.

But if you are more the huntin’ shootin’ fishin’ kind of person, %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal click here Visit a video page false http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnrcr-rOcuw false false%> to see how you can get your wheelchair off-road and into the back country to bag some game. It looks like the user in this video is getting a charge out of his latest innovation.

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