one spring day i decided to drive the wheelchair to my father's house,so a friend took me to the garage on his motorcycle and waited to lead me home i practiced with the wheelchair for a faw minutes and when i had the hang of it we started down a road that had a canal on each side things went well for the first half mile but when i came off a bridge i encountered and oncoming car and panicked i lost control of the wheelchair and plunged into a canal where i ended up standing in waist-deep water beside the wheelchair which was stuck in the mud