Woman Charged With Driving Wheelchair While Drunk
SPRING HILL, FL, Jan. 13, 2003 -- A woman appeared in Hernando County Court last Wednesday charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. This wouldn't have been unusual except for the fact that Cynthia Christensen, 45, was not driving a car or SUV -- she was driving her wheelchair.
On September 21, 2003, Christensen was talking with her fiancée in her driveway when, she claims, her battery-operated Hoveround got stuck in some loose sand. Christensen tried to use her joystick to maneuver the wheelchair onto solid ground, but it hopped the curb and entered the roadway, she said.