mobility vehicle world speed record

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A terminally ill man who is paralysed from the neck down has set a world speed record in a custom-made electric wheelchair.
BBC News

Jason Liversidge, who has motor neurone disease, reached nearly 67mph (108km/h) at Elvington Airfield, near York.
The father of two, from Rise in East Yorkshire, had been aiming for the record for about three years.
The world speed record for an electric all-terrain mobility vehicle was previously 62mph.
 
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

- Dylan Thomas
 
I can imagine and close to it. Being bed ridden is no fun but getting out and breaking a speed record is great. My trike gives me freedom that would not be possible with out it.
 
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