Police book wheelchair driver

Spanish police pulled over a man in a electric wheelchair who was riding along on a expressway after he got lost while looking for a brothel.

The 42-year-old man, who is tetraplegic, drove the specially-designed wheelchair which keeps him in a stretched position with the use of his chin and mouth, regional newspaper El Ideal Callego reported.

He was stopped by police while travelling “at considerable speed” overnight on Friday on the highway linking Ferrol with As Pontes in the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia.

A policewoman in the town of Naron in Galicia said the man was not driving at excessive velocity “but he nonetheless posed an obvious danger to traffic and to himself”.

The man was taken to a police station where he was tested negative for alcohol.