Patent ID: 8567802

Claim:
A vehicle comprising: a body having a side panel, a frame and a floor board; a pair of front steerable wheels spaced in a transverse direction of the body of the vehicle; at least one pair of transversely spaced rear wheels which are longitudinally spaced from the front steerable wheels; a door provided along the at least one side panel; and a safety guard assembly for deflecting animate body parts from in front of at least one of the front and rear wheels, said safety guard assembly including: a mounting plate unit secured to the side panel and at least one of the frame and the floor board; and a frontal guard piece attached to the mounting plate unit and cantilevered beneath the body in front of the at least one of the front and rear wheels so as to be positioned to prevent the animate body parts from being run-over and crushed by the at least one of the front and rear wheels.