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Help Desk → Success Stories - Living with SCI/D → Stories of Success After SCI/D → Charlie Ray Howell-Paralyzed Racer

3.9. Charlie Ray Howell-Paralyzed Racer

Charlie Ray Howell is a paralyzed Racer but justPump the brakes on any presumption that Charlie Ray Howell's paralysis keeps him from living out his dream of being a racecar driver.

An automobile accident in 2010 left the Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee, resident dependent on a wheelchair but far from being confined to it.

Thanks to some clever rigging on his steering wheel, which allows Howell, 38, to operate all controls — brakes, acceleration and clutch — with his hands, he regularly climbs into his racecar and competes in local races in Middle Tennessee.