PHOENIX - An Arizona Department of Public Safety trooper came to the aid of a man in distress along a north Phoenix freeway.The incident happened on Aug.
7 along Interstate 17 near Greenway when an elderly man was riding a scooter and the battery died.Trooper Lucas Adams arrived at the scene and pushed the man back to his home a quarter-mile away, DPS said.
Temperatures in Phoenix on Sunday reached 105°F.It started out like any other workday for Adams."As I pulled up and talked with him, I could tell he had been sweating profusely, been there a while.
Talking with him, found out his motor died, and his battery died on his wheelchair that he had," Adams said.He says the man was a disabled war veteran on his way home from an errand.