Woman pushing empty wheelchair along I-75 is taken home by State Highway Patrol

SPRINGBORO — A woman who was pushing an empty wheelchair along Interstate 75 as she walked northbound in an attempt to return to her home about 40 miles away was picked up Sunday morning by the State Highway Patrol and transported home, a patrol dispatcher said.

The patrol’s Lebanon post received several calls about the 54-year-old woman, who was spotted as she walked along the right shoulder of the highway’s northbound lanes in a construction zone in Warren County, more than a mile south of the exit at I-75’s intersection with State Route 73. A state trooper picked up the woman and relayed her north to another trooper, to be taken on to her hometown of Troy in Miami County, said Amy McCleese, a dispatcher at the Lebanon post.