Man Charged with Driving Motorized Wheelchair Drunk

(UPI) - Police in Australia say they have charged a man with drunken driving after he was found sleeping in his motorized wheelchair, blocking traffic.

Officers in Cairns said the 64-year-old man's wheelchair had come to a stop in an exit lane for a major highway, forcing drivers to circumvent him, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported Monday.

Inspector Bob Waters said the man's blood-alcohol content was found to be 0.301, more than six times the legal limit for operating a motor vehicle.

"The vehicles that we normally hear about with drink driving are the family car, the truck, the motorbike," Waters said. "But there are also other classes of vehicles that are subject to drink-driving laws."