After a car she was travelling in on Interstate 5 to Los Angeles from San Francisco was involved in an accident on September 3, 2001, in which fellow actress Thuy Trang was killed, she was paralyzed and diagnosed as a C4-5 quadriplegic.
In 2004 she presided over the trial of Jonathan Magbie, a quadriplegic man who had been arrested for possession of marijuana.
The position was created at the federal level following the 2004 federal election when a Winnipeg district elected a quadriplegic candidate, Conservative Steven Fletcher, who requires the constant presence of an aide to provide personal care and assist in his duties.
Adapting a PlayStation 2 game controller for an 11-year-old quadriplegic boy.
Entertainment Weekly reviewed the book saying "Quadriplegic forensics whiz Lincoln Rhyme and his Glock-toting girlfriend, Amelia Sachs, track a serial killer who uses an all-knowing computer database to frame fall guys. Movie Pitch: Ironside meets CSI and Enemy of the State. Bottom Line: Rhyme still intrigues in his eighth outing, while Deaver's scarily believable depiction of identity theft in a total-surveillance society stokes our paranoia. A -."
However, when pages from the Darkhold are distributed to unsuspecting mortals by a demonic Dwarf and Nash is rendered quadriplegic and comatose following an explosion intended to kill Victoria, she joins with occult expert Louise Hastings and Interpol agent Sam Buchanan to recover the pages as the Darkhold Redeemers.