Blind man held for driving truck

Buenos Aires - Argentine police arrested a blind man driving a pickup truck with the help of his 13-year-old daughter and charged…

Buenos Aires - Argentine police arrested a blind man driving a pickup truck with the help of his 13-year-old daughter and charged him with dangerous conduct, a police spokesman said.

"The blind man was driving fairly well, although he made some pretty abrupt manoeuvres which attracted the attention of a patrol car," the spokesman told the official Telam news agency in the southern Argentine city of Trelew.

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