LANCASTER, Calif.-- A sheriff's deputy in California is being praised after he pushed an elderly woman's wheelchair one mile to her home.
Lancaster Sheriff's deputies Chapman and Montanez got a call about a traffic hazard earlier this week.
They were told it was a wheelchair in the middle of the road, but when they arrived on the scene, they realized it was much more.
In the motorized chair was an elderly woman. The wheelchair had ran out of power and the woman was stranded.
The deputies offered her a ride, but the wheelchair was too heavy and too big to get into their patrol car.
The woman said the chair was her only means of mobility so she didn't want to leave it behind.
So, instead of leaving the wheelchair on the side of the road, Montanez got out of the patrol car and started walking.
While Chapman and the lady followed behind in the air-conditioned cruiser, Montanez pushed the heavy wheelchair a mile to the lady’s home.
Montanez's partner drove the patrol car behind the wheelchair as he teased the walking deputy. You can hear him say on his dash cam video: "You can pick it up, you're only going about one mile an hour."
Once she got back home the woman thanked the deputy for going above the call of duty.
