You guys know how to travel in a car with your canes, right? You know where to put them so they don’t kill you in an accident? You’re not just holding them on your lap?
For the record they go under your feet or under the seat. That’s the safest place for them except the trunk. Pls don’t let your mobility aid kill you in a freak accident
I’ve been driving with my cane wrong the entire time 😃
If this post saves even just one (1) person from ending up with a broken jaw/face/windshield I will be happy tbh
Nobody deserves to have to deal with maxillofacial surgeons or worse…. auto glass repair shops
For rigid blindness canes that don’t collapse and don’t fit in those other locations, it goes between your seat and the door/wall of the car. Not flung across the backseat, not hanging out in the middle of the car between the passenger seat and the driver seat, but slid neatly Between the side of your seat and the doors of the car next to you. Ideally as low to the floor of the car that it’ll go.
Better yet, make sure it goes behind the seatbelt, not over top of it, so once you actually buckle your seatbelt, the cane is still tucked neatly between the seat and the door, rather than Hanging out on your shoulder because the seatbelt pulled it out.
Rigid canes are fantastic things that get excellent feedback compared to folding, so please don’t see this as a reason not to use a rigid cane, but please do store them correctly when you’re in a car. It will be a heck of a lot safer and more convenient, too.