Blind Drive

In Spain they do at any rate. At a very high rate of speed, too. A Spanish court has ruled that a man caught driving 154 km per hour (96 miles per hour) in a BMW was actually blinded in an automobile accident in 1998.

MADRID (Reuters) - A blind man caught speeding on a Spanish motorway has been cleared of fraud after a judge rejected an insurance company's allegation that he could really see, court officials said on Thursday.

Domingo Merino was charged with fraud after insurers Mapfre said he had not been blinded in a traffic accident for which they were ordered to pay him 550,000 euros (361,268 pounds) in compensation in a 1998 case.

Merino told the judge his wife let him take the wheel on a straight stretch of road. The phenomenon of the blind driving is no surprise to anyone who has driven in Boston, of course.