Off-highway motor vehicle for paraplegic handicapped persons

Off-highway vehicle for a paraplegic handicapped person seated on his wheelchair and enabling the wheelchair to be used without the need for external aid, wherein the vehicle includes a combination of:

• a chassis comprising first and second portions, said first portion being tubular and forming a vertical arch ended by a U-shaped base open toward a front of the chassis, the second portion comprising two box plate girders extending branches of the U-shaped base between which the person seated in his wheelchair is installed, a unit comprising two elements cooperating together for loading, stowing, and unloading of the wheelchair in the vehicle, one element being an arch-shaped tubular frame and the other element comprising two shoes, these two elements being rotary-joined to the chassis and interconnected by two rocker bars, an endless chain transmission transmitting movement from two outlets of a power drive train respectively, to two pairs of driving wheels, each pair of driving wheels being secured to one of the two box plate girders, control means to start, stop, and control the drive train and drive the vehicle, and a braking device comprising two levers which respectively operate on one of two disks, each of said disks being disposed at one of the two drive train outlets so that the vehicle turns in a direction corresponding to the pair of wheels braked by activation of the lever acting on this pair of wheels, braking of the vehicle being obtained by simultaneously activating the two levers.