Epilepsy and not informing DVLA

BlueEyedGirl

Very irresponsible person you are!

ChumLee

bazster wrote: »

So now you're calling him a liar as well as an idiot.

What a charming person to know you must be (and you, of course, are perfect in every way and have never made a mistake).

I think part of that was you.

bazster wrote: »

You're a bit of an eejit, and I would suggest that the way out of this is not to tell a pack of lies as suggested above.

Inform DVLA of your condition, tell them you haven't been driving since it was diagnosed, and that you now meet the criteria for driving legally. They will then have two separate issues to consider:

(i) whether to do anything about the offence you committed by not informing them in the first place (they will not send you to jail, a fine is the possible sanction, if they bother to do anything about it)

(ii) whether to permit you to keep your licence or issue you with a 3-year restricted licence; basically they will write to your Dr to get confirmation of your fitness to drive, and decide what do do on the basis of that.

Also inform your insurance company. They could make a song-and-dance about the fact that you should've informed them three years ago, and that all this time you've been down as the main driver when it was in fact your wife, but unless you've claimed in the interim, or your wife has a terrible driving record, or you've been getting NCD that she wouldn't have been entitled to if she were the policyholder, I can't see there's anything in it for them. But anyway it can't be helped, if you want to drive you must inform them. In many years of declared epilepsy my OH has never had a premium loaded because of it (although she has always played it by the book despite having to surrender her licence twice).

arcon5

There's a difference between policy holder and main driver op - nothing wrong with you being a policy holder and not the main driver, you select who the main driver is at the quote stage.

dacouch

arcon5 wrote: »

There's a difference between policy holder and main driver op - nothing wrong with you being a policy holder and not the main driver, you select who the main driver is at the quote stage.

It can be an issue with an Insurer if you have a medical condition the Insurer you chose does not offer cover for.

If they had not offered cover to epelitics (Plenty of Insurers don't) there was a real chance the OP's policy would have been voided if the Insurers had discovered it. It not being reported to the DVLA would have rung serious alarm bells with any Insurer

patman99

Maybe it's about time that GPs automatically informed the DVLA of any notifiable illnesses.

I remember a few years back a (now former) workmate blacked-out and crashed into a tractor on the way home from work. The Hospital Dr. looked at his medical records and informed DVLA of the fact that he had had an epileptic siezure, but it was caused due to his GP having prescribed him the wrong meds. (the GP in question had given him a script for a med that should only have been taken for six months max, but he had been on the meds since the mid 1960's).
The DVLA suspended his licence for 12 weeks, but when he got it back, it had no restrictions on.