I want to buy a van that is suitable to carry an Invacare chair. I will need a ramp and hopefully can use the chair as the driver’s seat. Need to keep the costs down, but would like a fairly new vehicle. Is it better to get one already converted or buy new and have it converted?
We’re in the market to buy a van with a lift, I was considering the Dodge Sprinter but someone said they are to narrow for their height, good for hauling things but not a luxury ride.
The van would have to be large enough to accommodate the driver passenger seats, followed by two passenger seat, then enough room for a wheel chair lock and a rear loading ramp.
Any ideas?
I am a 61 year old service connected Vietnam Veteran and my wife has been unable to walk since 2000 because the VA did not treat her broken leg properly. She has a motorized wheelchair, but we have been unable to get a handicap van so that we can transport her place she would like to go so she is a prisoner in her on home. The VA refuses to buy her a handicap van and there are no organizations that help people to buy one who are in great need of one. We tried having my wife in our motorized wheelchair going down the side of the road with me behind her in my car with my flashers on, but we got stopped by the police and told that it was illegal for us to do that. I ask them if it was illegal for a person with one or two prosthetic legs to walk down the roads and they said no. I responded that the motorized wheelchair was my wife’s legs so why if it was not illegal for a person with prosthetic legs to walked down the road was it illegal for her to and the answer he gave was,”Because it just is”. So my wife is unable to get a handicap van so she can not go down the road without one unless she was to have her bad leg amputated and got a prosthetic leg and was able to learn to, walk with it then she could. Since we can not afford to she is punished because the VA messed up her leg.
Wheelchair accessible Honda minivans are available from MC Mobility Systems from any of four locations in Ohio: Cincinnati, Dayton, Cleveland, or Columbus.
Okay, so Van Warped tour is coming to Miami Florida Mid July. I am handicapped in a wheelchair. It is going to be my first year going. Is it really going to be a huge hassle to get around the tour?