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Driver's Licence Suspension and DVLA Petition

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Hello everyone,

Prrogress with the petition has been excellent recently, so this post is designed to keep you all informed as to what is happening. Firstly, I met with my local MP, Stephen Twigg, yesterday, to discuss a plan of action for how we can have this bill discussed by politicians who have the power to call for a reconsideration of the EU directive and the DVLA's interpretation of it. He fully backs my argument and has shared the petition on Twitter to give validity to his support. I do not have exact details of what is going to be done as the meeting was relatively quick and a lot was said however, Stephen's secretary, Kevin, has promised that he will send me the minutes of the meeting. I'll let you all know about what's in those minutes when I receive them on Monday. Needless to say, various MP's will be being contacted and we are attempting to push for a debate in parliament itself.

Secondly, George Howarth MP has written to me via. e-mail and also given me his full support. He has also offered his services in backing Stephen's actions but as parliamentary procedure dictates, he can not directly represent me as I am not one of his constituents. He is, however, a member of the all party parliamentary group for diabetes and will be bringing the matter and my petition to their attention. Furthermore, he will be circulating details of the petition to those he knows in the diabetes community. This is a tremendous help and also adds further support to my argument, as you can no doubt tell, i am ecstatic with regards to these developments and I am more confident than ever that we can change the situation to benefit all diabetic drivers across the country and potentially Europe.

Finally, I posted a video update last night detailing other recent developments so if you have a chance to, please have a look at it, the petition site is here: http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitio...-suspension-of-drivers-licences-for-diabetics

Thank you all again for your support, signatures, sharing and hard work. We're starting to make some important headway with regards to this now so lets keep up the fight!

Best,

- Martyn
 
Just looked on the change.org website, nearly a thousand signatues (964) keep up the good work peeps and keep sharing...
 
Hello everybody!

Apologies for my recent radio silence/abscene, I've been tremendously busy and this is really the first free moment I've had to drop you all a line and keep you informed as to what is going on: with regards to the petition itself, there's not an awful lot happening. We're nearly at 1000 signatures though so any sharing that you guys might be able to do would be great!

With regards to my own situation I've recently seen my consultant at the diabetes clinic I attend and have asked if he would supply a letter of support along with my licence reapplication form. I was overjoyed to hear that he would indeed oblige me with this and we have set to gathering all required information to allow this letter to be written up, I'm currently waiting for it to drop through my postbox. Not sure if this will work but having heard of "Inthesky"s success I'm somewhat hopeful that the situation may be rectified. At the moment my girlfriend has started her driving lessons and we're hoping to have one of us on the road (at least) before the end of summer.

Thank you all once again for your continued support, lets try and push the signatures up to 1000 by the end of Friday night!

Best,

- Martyn
 
Hope the letter from your consultant helps Martyn. I've shared your petition on FB, hope you get the 1000 signatures very soon! 🙂
 
Court appeal

Martin

I have had a similar situation as yourself and am actually going to appeal the DVLA's decision at a Magistrates court. Have you any knowledge of anyone who has actually appealed to a Magistrates court against their licence being revoked.

Les
 
Welcome to the forum, Lesoxley - but sorry you have to be here with diabetes and a problem with DVLA.
 
Copepod
The respondant claims to be type 1(so here with diabetes), and IS having a problem with DVLA and is asking about a possible route of remedy😡
 
Not sure why you're angry, FergusC?

I'd be far happier if no-one had type 1 (or any type of diabetes) and that no-one had problems with DVLA. But, given that situation, I'm glad Les found this forum, and hope that it will lead them to a remedy. I didn't have any solution to suggest, but didn't want to ignore them by failing to give a welcome etc.

Would be good if Martin could respond to Les - by keeping thread active, that makes a response more likely.
 
Copepod said:
Not sure why you're angry, FergusC?

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May be how it looked last night but your comment seemed like you were trying to say " sorry , youre not one of us with our problems"
"snip...but sorry you have to be here with diabetes and a problem with DVLA...snip" and this could turn someone away. Sorry if I read it wrong!
 
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FergusC said:
May be how it looked last night but your comment seemed like you were trying to say " sorry , youre not one of us with our problems"
"snip...but sorry you have to be here with diabetes and a problem with DVLA...snip" and this could turn someone away. Sorry if I read it wrong!
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Hi Fergus,
I think you misread/understood Copepods reply :confused: Copepod is one of the nicest people on this forum being kind and considerate with all her replies with practical and sensible advice thrown in for good measure.
 
Pumper_Sue said:
Hi Fergus,
I think you misread/understood Copepods reply :confused: Copepod is one of the nicest people on this forum being kind and considerate with all her replies with practical and sensible advice thrown in for good measure.
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Didn't seem like a normal copepod reply.
 
FergusC said:
Didn't seem like a normal copepod reply.
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I'm even more confused, All Copepod did was welcome the poster to the forum and say she was sorry OP was having problems with the DVLA.

Copepod was the only one on the forum to welcome the OP and has no knowledge of magistrates courts thus could comment no further.

Perhaps if you have any knowledge you would be kind enough to part with it instead of picking on Copepod 😡
 
All Copepod did was welcome the poster to the forum and say she was sorry OP was having problems with the DVLA. This was where this miunderstanding happened:
Original reply read"Welcome to the forum, Lesoxley - but sorry you have to be here with diabetes and a problem with DVLA."
I (mis) read it as " Sorry, you have to be here with diabetes and a problem with DVLA" to be commenting on this as if the poster was neither!
I apologise Copepod, as i say This would be most unlike your usual self so Mea Culpa, Mea axima Culpa.
 
I'm only just back to forum after morning at work. No offence was intended by either me or FergusC, I'm pretty sure. Sometimes my perhaps overly precise use of English is misunderstood, if read too quickly.

Thanks to both FergusC for apology and Pumper_Sue for explaining what I meant 🙂
 
Same situation

Hi Martyn

I have almost exactly the same problem as you, should you wish to hear the full story for use as ammo please feel free to contact me.

Good luck mate
 
Welcome to the forum, Ditchmonsterob. You'll have to make some posts before you can use PM facility. So, join in!
 
I too can see the issues with the faceless people at the Dvla, although mine was slightly different in circumstances, I suffered severe sickness a night before driving, got up the following morn reading of 7.6 set off driving after usual breakfast and suffered a severe hypo resulting in rear ending another vehicle at low speed. My warning signs were there but by the time I had started to pull over to remedy the fact it was too late.
I drive for a living so ultimately now will lose my job and livelihood because the Dvla do not take each case separate. The facts that I have been driving for 25+ years without a speeding ticket, accident, or any issues with my diabetes causing any problem, they still look at a reference piece of paper and this is what it says so this is what will happen, irrelevant to the consequences to the driver and his life. They could see I follow all the rules, I even test every hour rather than the stated 2hrs just to feel secure in myself.
Don't know if anyone out there has had any success in appealing a same sort of decision, my doctor agrees it is a stupid way to run the laws of the land without even consulting with him for his opinion first.
I will appeal via the magistrates court ( probably at an unrealistic cost) though would be grateful if anyone knows of any success. In this method
Petition to be signed - good luck with it, faceless discrimination is hard to beat and as said, ring them up and they answer from a set program so don't expect any joy
Cheers
 
I have signed your petition.
The same thing happened to me. 2 night-time hypos, requiring assistance. I had excellent daytime hypo awareness. I lost my licence. And it was a nightmare. I lost my job. Diabetes UK were very pleasant.

I finally hired a lawyer. Philip Somarakis. He is the nicest person and one of the top lawyers regarding Driving offences. He helped me get it back. He said it was a tough fight against the DVLA.

My diabetic consultant accepts that I am now frightened to tell anyone if I have a night-time hypo.
 
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