prunesandcustard

[prunesandcustard]

Hiya Folks, I have been type 1 for 49 years and I live in Kent, well part of it anyway. I have joined this group for general info.

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

Hi and welcome 🙂

 

[mikeyB]

Hello, and welcome to the gang🙂

I’m sure with alll your years of experience, you can add as much to the forum as we can give you. Have a good look around, anyway.

I have lived in Kent - Tunbridge Wells, Pembury and Maidstone. I could only take it for so long. Beer not good enough.

 

[Amigo]

Welcome! Are you partial to prunes and custard?

 

[Flower]

Hello and welcome, glad you've joined us @prunesandcustard 🙂

 

[Matt Cycle]

Hello and welcome to the forum 🙂

 

[prunesandcustard]

Hiya everyone thanks for responding. I have one main problem I need to get info on please.I have been driving for 56 years for a living and social.I have been receiving my 3yr licence for many of those years.This August I had to renew my licence as per usual. The D.V.L.A. did all the checks and as normal sent me for a visual field test.To my disbelief and complete shock they refused my licence.What I can't understand is why this is so, after all you do not rely on peripheral vision to drive safetly.That is why your head turns fom side to side isn't it? It also states in the "Highway Code" that before leaving a junction to "look right, Look left and Right again" before proceeding.Has anybody else been refused a licence for this? Is there anything that can be done to get them to reverse their decision? I will be grate ful for any answers on this subject.Just one more thing Mike!, what do you mean the beer is not good enough.Nothing wrong with good old Faversham Ales.🙂

 

[mikeyB]

I’m having trouble giving you the link, but it is possible to get around the refusal in certain circumstances. Do you know why your field defects are present? If it is due to a condition that is a single event, and not progressive, and there is good functional adaptation, then you can get your licence back if your driving is normal subject to the view of an official examiner. You need to get that evidence from an eye specialist before they will even consider restoration.

Just Google visual field defects and fitness to drive, and locate the government site. The rules are pretty stern, and looking at other cases, the chances of restoring the licence are rather slim. But if you don’t buy a ticket, you won’t win the raffle.

I gave up driving, partly because of a motor neuropathy affecting mainly my legs, but now also the arms. I’ve also lost hypo awareness, so thank goodness for the Libre system. That was my decision, not the DVLA, because I would be a danger on the roads.

I didn’t come across Faversham Ales. It was all Shepherd Neame. I’m a bitter man, and their bitter wasn’t bitter enough or clean tasting enough for my taste. I was brought up on Thwaites in Lancashire. Proper man’s beer.😉

 

[prunesandcustard]

Hiya everyone thanks for responding. I have one main problem I need to get info on please.I have been driving for 56 years for a living and social.I have been receiving my 3yr licence for many of those years.This August I had to renew my licence as per usual. The D.V.L.A. did all the checks and as normal sent me for a visual field test.To my disbelief and complete shock they refused my licence.What I can't understand is why this is so, after all you do not rely on peripheral vision to drive safetly.That is why your head turns fom side to side isn't it? It also states in the "Highway Code" that before leaving a junction to "look right, Look left and Right again" before proceeding.Has anybody else been refused a licence for this? Is there anything that can be done to get them to reverse their decision? I will be grate ful for any answers on this subject.Just one more thing Mike!, what do you mean the beer is not good enough.Nothing wrong with good old Faversham Ales.🙂

I’m having trouble giving you the link, but it is possible to get around the refusal in certain circumstances. Do you know why your field defects are present? If it is due to a condition that is a single event, and not progressive, and there is good functional adaptation, then you can get your licence back if your driving is normal subject to the view of an official examiner. You need to get that evidence from an eye specialist before they will even consider restoration.

Just Google visual field defects and fitness to drive, and locate the government site. The rules are pretty stern, and looking at other cases, the chances of restoring the licence are rather slim. But if you don’t buy a ticket, you won’t win the raffle.

I gave up driving, partly because of a motor neuropathy affecting mainly my legs, but now also the arms. I’ve also lost hypo awareness, so thank goodness for the Libre system. That was my decision, not the DVLA, because I would be a danger on the roads.

I didn’t come across Faversham Ales. It was all Shepherd Neame. I’m a bitter man, and their bitter wasn’t bitter enough or clean tasting enough for my taste. I was brought up on Thwaites in Lancashire. Proper man’s beer.😉

Thanks Mike, I will certainly look into your suggestion on this matter. It is much appreciated. like you I would have preffered to voluntary return my licence to them if I thought that I was a danger to other road users. thanks again Mike you have possible thrown me a lifeline.

 

[Maz2]

Welcome to the Forum. Love your user name.