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I need to carry Hazard Cones with me.
By Norm Seeley | July 9, 2010
I pulled our wheelchair van into the entry way at the Valley Ho Hotel, as I have done dozens of times but today I pulled all the way to the left, as there was a white sedan sitting to the far right. I stopped in front of the sedan, and made sure there was plenty of room between the sedan and where I was letting down the ramp so Karen in her wheelchair could get out and the sedan could get by.
There had to be at least 4 feet between the end of the ramp when down and the path that the sedan would take when it left.
Karen was out of the van, sitting waiting for me and the sedan took off.
The sedan started to move, not going straight but moving to the left heading towards the van and the lowered ramp. I came around the back of the van a split second before the sedan hit the ramp. I cried out S T O P, and by then was standing or moving with the sedan, at the driver’s window. I hit the window with my right hand and cried out again. S T O P !! The window came down and I told the driver to stop and look out for the ramp. He backed up slowly and then aimed the vehicle the way he should have in the first place. I did hear him say he was sorry several times. Can’t believe he couldn’t or just didn’t want to see the Dark Blue Dodge Van and had a Ramp lowering out of it’s passenger side not more that 6 feet just to the left of his windshield in broad day light. I won’t say any thing more.
Luckily for us, even though the front wheel did come up on the ramp, it did no damage.
Had I not been born with a loud voice, and been close enough to the vehicle to hit the drivers window when yelling STOP, he might have broken the ramp to our van.
It’s a good thing that our lunch was as good as it normally is and Cafe Zu Zu, Karen had what she normally does, and I had a Ben Wilson Special.
Life in Scottsdale is great.
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