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Deputy pushes woman in disabled wheelchair 1 mile to her home

LANCASTER, Calif. — A sheriff's deputy in California is being praised after he pushed an elderly woman in a wheelchair nearly a mile to her home.

Lancaster sheriff's deputies got a call about a traffic hazard earlier this week. They were told there was a wheelchair in the middle of the road, but when they arrived on the scene, they realized there was much more going on.

In the motorized chair was an elderly woman. The wheelchair had ran out of power and the woman was stranded.

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The deputies offered her a ride, but the wheelchair was too heavy and too big to get into their patrol car. The woman said the chair was her only means of mobility, so she didn't want to leave it behind.

So, instead of leaving both the woman and her wheelchair on the side of the road, one of the deputies got out of the patrol car and started walking. He pushed the woman all the way to her home, about a mile away.

His partner drove the patrol car behind the wheelchair as he teased the walking deputy, urging him over the car's external speaker: "You can pick it up, you're only going about 1 mile an hour."

Once she got back home, the woman thanked the deputy for going above the call of duty.

Montanez pushing wheelchair

Deputies Chapman and Montanez received a call of a traffic hazard, a wheelchair in the middle of the road. When they arrived, they did find the wheelchair on the side of the road, but with an elderly female sitting in it! Her motorized wheelchair had run out of power and she was stranded. Deputies Chapman and Montanez quickly offered her a ride home, but she was very upset about leaving her only means of mobility behind. The wheelchair, being quite heavy and unable to fold because of the battery pack, did not fit in their patrol vehicle. That's when Deputy Montanez stepped up. He decided he would push the wheelchair to her home, about one mile, in full uniform and boots. Deputy Chapman teased him about his "slow" pace and you can hear our eldelry friend getting a good laugh out of it! We are so incredibly grateful to all of our deputies for the work they do on a daily basis. My hero wears a badge. #LASD #AV411 #soundon #workoutoftheday #myherowearsabadge Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

Posted by Lancaster Sheriff's Station on Tuesday, October 2, 2018
 

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