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Essential for the safe and convenient transportation of wheelchair users, a wheelchair accessible vehicle (WAV) Standard conversions include lowered floors, counter-balanced ramps and wheelchair security mechanisms. Additional features may also be specified. Rear access conversions are the most popular, and some of the vehicles commonly offered by the conversion companies are: Citroen Berlingo, Renault Kangoo, VW Transporter, Mercedes Vito, Vauxhall Zafira
Click here for Guidance on the Safe Transportation of Wheelchairs
Suppliers of adapted vehicles and wheelchair accessible transport:
AAT Stairclimbers
- crash-tested stairclimbing wheelchair
Allied Vehicles
Braiden International
UK Ltd wheelchair lifts and carriers
Constables Mobility
Cowal Mobility hoists/lifts
for wheelchair and people
Gowrings Mobility
Hill Gruau Accessible
Vehicles
Lewis Reed
Steering Developments
WAV Evolution
Allied Vehicles' Monarch, their conversion of the Peugeot Boxer, provides a range of wheelchair accessible features, including lifts, ramps and lowering suspension, to give a versatile minibus for community use. (shown above)
Hill
Gruau's Fiat Combi SX conversion provides 5/6 seats plus wheelchair space,
making it ideal for use by community transport providers, as well as nursing
homes, schools, local authorities etc.
Wheelchair
users are far more likely to use taxis as their most common form of transport.
Gowrings range of taxi solutions includes the Kangoo ChairCab (left),
which was recently awarded the prestigious Accord Technique accolade.
Lewis
Reed's Kangoo conversion (right) has particularly easy wheelchair access,
with the company's own TorSpring integral one piece ramp system, and a
lowered floor, which ensures that the wheelchair passenger and any other
passengers are all seated at the same level.
For
transferring wheelchair users safely into a vehicle, a lift such as Cowal
Mobility's Meyland Carlift (left) is convenient.
It fits to either side of the vehicle, and the motor is powered by the car battery.
Or AAT's stairclimbing wheelchair (right) can be used to lift the wheelchair user into a vehicle, and they can then travel in the wheelchair without the need to transfer.
Click here for motoring adaptations and other information for disabled and elderly drivers.
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