Paralysed woman wins responsible driver award


KUALA LUMPUR: Getting into a car, starting the engine and driving off is a simple everyday task for many, but for Siti Zuraidah Muhammad Husain, who was born paralysed from the waist down – it is a triumph.

For 14 years now, the senior executive would wheel herself out of her house and push herself into her tiny car, before single-handedly dismantling and stowing away her wheelchair and starting her journey to work.

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