Student In Wheelchair Plans To Hit The Road To raise Awareness

Student In Wheelchair Plans To Hit The Road To raise Awareness: "Student In Wheelchair Plans To Hit The Road To raise Awareness

Thu, January 10, 2008
By JENNI DUNNING, SPECIAL TO SUN MEDIA

His electric wheelchair runs only 10 kilometres an hour, but Jeffrey Preston is determined to ride it from London to Ottawa in 40 days this spring.

Preston, 24, of Port Elgin, has congenital muscular dystrophy. He's making the 650-km trek to raise awareness of the 'bad' conditions of Ontario's transportation systems for disabled people."