For Christ sake don't catch on fire in San Antonio

Woman killed by firefighters

Gruesome. That'll teach her to be out in public in her wheelchair.

Austin Powers: Not the time to lose one's head.
Vanessa Kensington: No.
Austin Powers: That's not the way to get ahead in life.
Vanessa Kensington: No.
Austin Powers: It's a shame he wasn't more headstrong.
Vanessa Kensington: Hmm.
Austin Powers: He'll never be the head of a major corporation.
Vanessa Kensington: Okay, that'll do.
Austin Powers: Okay.

How the hell do you hit a woman in a wheelchair and not be aware of it?

Well, if she was in his blindspot or if she simply did the "I'm a cripple and the world has to stop for me" wheelchair dart in front fo the truck manuever.

Ouch. Now that's an unhappy ending.

Awhile back I remember a story about a guy on a wheelchair who somehow got hooked to the bumper of an 18 wheeler. Wound up completely unscathed, but he went a couple miles--at near highway speeds--before the cops stopped the trucker.

If this is who I think it is, I used to pass by that lady near every day, going like speed racer down some back roads behind marbach road and the nearby highway from the local supermarket to whatever crappy apartment she lived at. Seriously, she had like a go-cart engine on that motorized monstrosity of hers.

And, as a little factoid, that little intersection/area is within ten feet of the fire department, so it was probably an incident of ol' speedy doing her normal thang of not watching any traffic for shit and the fire truck only moments out of the station, its driver dead tired and the crew doing their best to put out yet another new year's firework disaster.

I think there is extra points for wheelchairs

My first reaction to this is probably the thing that gets me a heros welcome in Hell, so I think I'll table it for now.

Yeah, there's lots of people in this town who "drive" their wheelchairs in the street.

Some places, I can understand it because there either isn't a sidewalk or the sidewalk sucks for wheelchairs.

Still, though.

IIRC, "Wheelie" said he had a pretty good time. There was something about his 55 gal. Megagulp. I can't remember if it spilled, or if he sat there, contently drinking the thing the whole time.

The thread title is very misleading.

I don't know this particular area of San Antonio, but what I do know is that there aren't a lot of places in SA where you can just walk to where you want to go (much less wheelchair yourself there). It's not NY. It's a very spread out city where you have to drive to just about any place you want to go. So I don't know why this woman was out in a wheelchair by herself on the road anyway...

You've obviously never driven a fire truck before. They have some blind spots a normal car wouldn't have.