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My Husband has T1 and is in his late 40's. He was diagnosed at the age of 16, but has been driving since the age of 17. Recently he applied to have 7.5t added to his license, he went through and had a dvla medical which he drove to. Bearing in mind he hs had no intervention for any hypos within the last 3yrs and has been on a pump now for nearly 2 yrs. He has been monitored closely since getting the pump to make sure that it is all set up correctly. He works daily on the railways cutting trees down and has to have medicals regular for this. he was told that his lisence was being revoked on the day that they sent the letter, due to hypo unawarenes. we wondered what the best action would be and does this affect car incurance as i am just a named driver on his policy does this mean that i can be stopped for no insurance. It comes as a real shock to us and my husband is now so scared that he wont get his lisence back he is starting to get depressed. this could result in losing his job, which means no money for the mortgage so no house, and is also putting such a strain on us as a couple as he has stopped talking about things now for fear of someone hearing causing more heartache. any advice greatly welcomed.
 
Well - has he lost hypo awareness or not? Cos if he really has, then it's absolutely 100% illegal for him to drive anything at any time. Even if the DVLA don't know this, but he does! And it's very, very debatable whether his insurance would apply under those circumstances. Probably not.

If he hasn't lost his awareness and it's a mistake, then he can appeal and should win.

I should give the Diabetes UK Careline a call if I was you, with the letter in front of you so you can tell them exactly what it says.

If you are a named driver then you are insured anyway in the interim but to be absolutely exactly legally precise, you need to tell your insurers that he's not to be insured any more and you are now the sole driver of that vehicle. If the cover and the ownership of the car is in his name, then he had best do that himself. (Cos you could be eg his estranged wife and being spiteful, so unbeknown to him you were doing it so he wouldn't be insured - and get into trouble from that - see what I mean?)

Talk to DUK and then take whatever advice they give you. If he has grounds to do appeal, he needs to register his appeal within a certain time frame - the details for this are on the ketter they send revoking the licence, but get legal advice from the CAB or a law centre, unless DUK advise differently.
 
Welcome to the forum loopyloo70.

Trophywench has covered everything - hope a few phonecalls get things straight.

Just to emphasise - there are 2 main considerations regarding hypoglycaemia and driving: hypoglycaemia awareness ie driver knowing when their blood sugar is dropping / low; and needing assistance when hypoglycaemia (needing, rather than having help)
 
When he applied for his licence did he or anyone else tick the wrong box for hypo awareness?
A lot of people including Consultants have inadvertedly ticked the wrong box, thus someone has lost their licence for a wrong tick.

If this is the case contact the person involved and get them to FAX the dvla to correct it.
From reading other forums your husband could now be without his licence for 6 mths whilst the cogs turn at the dvla.

Another thought is........ at the medical did they check his meter and see a lot of low blood sugars on it? If that was the cause then very little can be done until he numbers increase.
Or he does as many others do.............. use a seperate meter for low blood sugars.
 
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Hi loopyloo70. I've also recently has my licence revoked due to a wrongly ticked hypo awareness box. In my case, the DVLA didn't even contact my medical team, they just revoked my licence straight away.
My annual review took place the following week and my consultant was perfectly happy with my hypo awareness and advised me to re-apply. Now it's just a question of waiting and hopefully this time the DVLA will take a look at my medical records.

Do you know if they contacted your husband's medical team at all?
 
Re the car Insurance question.

I surrendered by driving licence due to developing hypo unawareness - possibly due to medication - that hopefully won't have to take forever.

As a short term measure I wanted to change my car insurance to fire and theft - the insurance company said that if I had no licence I could have no insurance as the minimum they did was third party. If what they told me was correct then his insurance will lapse when the licence was revoked.

The best thing to do would be for him to speak to his insurance company and clarify the situation - but do not drive yourself unless you know you are covered. You may have to insure the car yourself.

I hope that makes sense
 
According to the OPs profile she hasn't been in since she posted that, unless she's coming in without Logging in?
 
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