Adapted housing and vehicle costs

A victim who uses a wheelchair can no longer live in an upper-floor apartment without an elevator or drive an ordinary car. The Dintilhac classification provides two heads for these needs. Adapted housing costs cover modifying the home, ramps, widened doors, accessible bathroom, home automation, or, when adaptation is impossible, the extra cost of buying or renting an accessible home. Adapted vehicle costs cover modifying the vehicle, hand controls, ramp, lift platform, and the extra cost of the required model, with its periodic replacement capitalized. The award must not enrich the victim: it compensates the extra cost linked to the disability, not the full value of property the victim would have acquired anyway. These heads, often underestimated in early reserves, are among the heaviest in catastrophic injury files, along with attendant care.