My neighbour rolled over his electric wheel chair last month....
Even though he is just in his late 50's he has several old age diseases like diabetics and rheumatoid arthritis, and when he was in the hospital he caught a hospital bacteria taking both his legs.
Now he has only 2 short stumps left and is using the joystick operated wheel chair to move around his Haflinger ponies.
Last month he checked the pregnant mares to see if anything happened over night.
When he came back and tried to drive out of the field, he had to climb up to the road bank, because the horses dug a low spot in front of the gate.
It's a wheel chair with 2 caster wheels up front and 2 1 foot wheels at the back, driven by electric motors.
The wheelchair came up on its rear wheels and landed on its back.
During the launch, the wireless phone came down just out of reach of his hands. The cell phone didnt have any connectivity at that spot between the trees. Because of his weakness he couldnt move himself to the phone, so he had to wait helplessly for anyone to help him. When the cell phone finally had connection, he called my parents, who hurried to help him.
The foals came along when he lied there, sniffing. He was very lucky that the foals didnt bite or scraped their hoofs on him lying there, out of curiosity.
He did suffer some bruises, which in his (arthritis) condition, take a very long time to heal.
