Last weekend, we went to a wedding held in a country hotel. My wife uses a wheelchair, and there were various accessibility issues most of which we overcame (disabled folk are very ingenious !). However the biggest one was a sodding gravel drive which was the only way to get from reception, to the lodge. About a 100m walk with a 1/10 slope down.
The only way to get between the two was to drive - which meant no drinking. Oh well, it was only a wedding.
Anyway, one suggestion, made in jest but which has stuck, was if there was an *easy* way to carry the wheelchair over the gravel. Like an old fashioned sedan chair.
I've got some sort of idea of 2 steel poles, maybe 4' long, which can suspend the chair. We're not talking a great amount - even 2" would be enough. Ideally something that can be carried in the car "just in case".
SWMBO came up with a steel hoop that would go around the occupant, and could be strapped to the frame ...
I tried Googling, but results were very US-centric about cars that carry wheelchairs. And Wiki-ing "sedan chairs" very quickly led to "sex swing" !