Monday 29th November 2004

For the second time in a month, a blind thief was arrested in Romania for stealing a car and crashing into a tree. With the assistance of another blind pal and a sighted friend in the passenger seat telling him which direction to drive in, Alin Prica managed to drive the stolen car 25 miles before crashing into the tree. A couple of weeks earlier Prica had managed to drive another stolen car for almost a mile by himself before smashing into a tree and knocking himself out. At the time, he stated: ‘I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do anything I wanted – despite my handicap. I only crashed because I was not sure of the way home.’