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Woman In Wheelchair Gets Ticketed

POSTED: 5:47 pm EDT March 13, 2008
UPDATED: 6:01 pm EDT March 13, 2008

The morning commute to work became a bit more complicated Monday for a Gwinnett County woman.

Rhonda Wilson, who has cerebral palsy, was riding her motorized wheelchair to work when a police officer pulled her over and gave her a ticket for driving with an expired license.

“This is my wheelchair. This is my legs,” Wilson said.

Wilson uses the chair to travel the mile from her house to the dental office where she works.

Wilson said the officer didn’t impound the chair but he did give her the ticket and told her she would be arrested if she drove the chair down the road again.

“It’s crazy. This is a wheelchair. It gets me from point A to point B,” Wilson said.

Gwinnett police said for the past two years they've received complaints about Wilson as she tools down the street. There are no sidewalks and officers said her wheelchair impedes the flow of traffic

Wilson insists the ticket is not valid because she's not driving a car or a moped. “I want to be a productive member of society,” Wilson said.

Wilson said Thursday that she will not pay the ticket. But she will begin paying for city transit to pick her up.

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