Scott Crawford, who has multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair, is forced to steer himself across eight lanes of high-speed traffic at an intersection with no pedestrian signal to reach St. Dominic Memorial Hospital.
by Isabelle Taft, Mississippi Today August 22, 2022 When Scott Crawford goes to see his neurologist at St. Dominic Memorial Hospital in Jackson, he travels down State Street to Fondren and then rolls his wheelchair along Lakeland Drive. A glass pedestrian bridge suspended above the street connects the parking garage to the hospital – but he can’t access it.
This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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