www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/apr/24/aurora-teen-wheelchair-charged-running-over-studen/
i will sum it up for you(in case you dont want to read the whole thing) a kid who is in a wheelchair, ran over some poor little girls toe, and now she is bringing charges against him! she had to go to the school nurse and get a band aid, o no a band aid.....
AURORA — You can't run over a toe in Aurora and get away with it, even if you're in a wheelchair.
An Aurora teen arrested last month for running over a high school classmate with his wheel chair has a history of recklessly crashing into people, according to officials at Rangeview High School.
Aurora police arrested the teen and charged him with assault, battery and reckless endangerment, after a girl decided to press charges against him.
Police did not name the boy because he is a juvenile, but his older brother says he is Joshua Martinez, a junior at Rangeview.
"These charges are bogus," Gabriel Martinez said. He said his brother's running over of the girl's toe "was inadvertent and unknowing."
The girl said she was hesitant to press charges, noting that it was very crowded in the high school hallway at the time. She said she feels bad for his disability, but finally decided to go ahead "because of (his) habitual pattern of running into people," according to the arrest report.
Martinez's father assured police that he'll take the electric wheel chair away from his son, which he did once before, and force him to use a hand-powered one.
The victim sought treatment from the school nurse after the wheelchair went over her toe.
A school resource officer said he'd observed the teen on several occasions zip around corners and pillars in his chair without slowing or looking to see who was on the other side. "Other students are constantly forced to stop or radically alter their course to avoid being hit by his chair.
"He has used it to bump people out of the way, he commonly uses it to force his way in between people who are obviously walking or standing together."
Campus monitors at the school told police that Martinez has hit several other people with his chair and that they've warned him about his reckless behavior.
Martinez, who has a form of cerebral palsy, denied that he had run over anyone's toes and told police that he has been driving very carefully since his father took away the chair the last time.
Officers noted that the chair has a molded skirting that could cut the skin of someone's shin, and hardened rubber wheels that could cause injury to feet or ankles.
Martinez's older brother, Gabriel, blames the incident on overly crowded hallways because Rangeview is over capacity.
He said Rangeview should be required to make reasonable accommodations for Joshua, and that should include wider hallways, under the rules of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
