First Mass-Produced Car for Wheelchair Users

Marc Buoniconti, paralyzed in a freak football accident 16 years ago, said he felt like a “proud parent,” when the first mass-produced car built for wheelchairs users rolled off the line this week at a Mishawaka, Ind. factory that once made H2 Hummers.

In 1985, Buoniconti, the son of former Miami Dolphins star Nick Buoniconti, suffered a severe spinal cord injury playing for South Carolina’s military institution, the Citadel.

Since then, he has raised money for spinal injury research and over the last few years, helped design a new car for wheelchair users.

Mark Bouniconti, President of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and the Bouniconti Fund, sits in the first vehicle made by the Vehicle Production Group (Joe Raymond/AP Photo)

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