[blindlaw] Help with car rentals

[Derek Manners]

I have also had no trouble paying when the sighted person I was renting the car for was with me. Also, you can rent it online usually using the driver info and pay with the blind person's credit card. They would never know who's card it was.

Best wishes
Derek Manners

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> On Nov 19, 2014, at 4:05 PM, Scott Greenblatt via blindlaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if anyone on this list knows the legality regarding car rental to persons with visual impairments. I'm in Westchester County New York and I heard of a gentleman who is vision impaired trying to rent a car for his cited daughter to drive. He was clear to both companies that he was not going to be driving the car himself but was going to get it purely for his daughter to drive them around. He was refused by both enterprise Rent-A-Car and Avis on two separate occasions. I am currently not working in New York and therefore have no access to legal research tools; I am hoping that someone could provide me with either case law or statute citations to the laws regarding car rental to persons with visual impairments. The gentleman was told by both car rental companies that it was against their policy to rent it to him due to his lack of sight. Thank you for any assistance with this matter.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
>   Scott Greenblatt 
> sgreenblatt76 at gmail.com
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