Man stopped for speeding in wheelchair

A German man was stopped by police after he was clocked doing 40mph down a high street in a tuned-up electric wheelchair.

Guenther Eichmann, 54, told cops in Geseke, Germany, that he was a former engineer and had modified the wheelchair's electric engine so it could go faster.

He was stopped doing twice the speed limit. His vehicle was confiscated and he was slapped with a £300 fine.

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need for speed , eh ?

Lol! There's that good ol' German engineering for ya.

Just wait till the cops see his turbo-boost action.

54 and still pimpin out his ride.

40mph???

Out of interest, I wonder what this bloke would have done, had his wheelchair hit some sort of brick laying in his path - bloody speed freak if you ask me

Is it even POSSIBLE to go 40 mph on a wheelchair .


This story sounds off the wall to me.

I will say this though, I sure wish I could run 40mph - even if it were only for 100m

40mph on just a pumped up electric wheelchair.. cool!! bloody speed freak. invented Wheelchair racing.

Pumped up electric wheelchair

The bloke's a nutter I tell you, a complete and utter nutter

yeah. he might be a complete doodoo but with those so called doodoo's inventing stuff we could have been nothing as to where we are today. Tesla for example could/have been called a nutter in his time.

must be using new energizer batteries

40 MPH - Wow that is pretty fast for a wheelchair. Although we just have that guy in the news who was hooked onto the front of a tractor trailer and pushed a few miles at 55MPH in a wheelchair.

For a wheelchair to do 40 on it's own power though... whew... it must've looked like this.

this could looked like it could go 140MPH! whoa!

Is that a jet engine underneath the seat! lol Catch me now coppers! Haha