UPDATE: I have now got an appointment with Specsavers on Saturday. I'll do (and pay for) the DVLA test (the results of which are a state secret) and then pay again for me to get my own results. I no longer give a toss, but my sol want the results to instruct an Opthalmologist specialist to do an assessment that should help my case. I just want to ramp more damages on the other party. I did say that I was jacked off with the whole thing, but if I can get more comp out of it, then all is good. I am now getting hospital appointments almost by the day! Gloucester next week and Stroud the week after. Still to hear from Cheltenham and Southmead. My new drug of choice is Piriton. I sleep really well with it! It is good as it is non-prescription and I can just buy it when I want. Sleep like a baby now! I wanted a quick resolution to get money to buy a new Ducati and kit. With all of the fecking around with DVLA, I've lost interest. I'll just let it chug along and see what happens. It can take years and I won't GAF. My KOBO works well, so I can read at night. My weight-loss program is progressing, I cycle on the exercise bike every day, and I won the bin race yet again!
What is about bins? Some put there's out at the last possible moment and when the are emptied, rush out to put them away! The must be staring out of the window waiting. That's why I win the bin race! Most are embarrassed that they even have on - let alone fill it! We have bin denial here!
So I need a taxi to my appointment at Specsavers tomorrow. Normally, I get taxis paid for under the rehab scheme but now that is starting to be questioned. "Is that Specsavers in Filton really your nearest branch?" "Do you really need a taxi?" "Yes, it is were the DVLA say I should go and I can't walk 12 fecking miles"! I think that I am reaching the limits of the rehab scheme. now"! I am only going to get a read-out for my sol so that she can refer me to a consultant to up my comp, so it is worth my while, anyway. If the taxi is further argued about then I'll just book it and pay myself! I can put it on my claim, anyway!
Did the test and Specsavers gave me the results which I can forward on to my solicitor. Taxi driver was happy wait because a) he has no other work abd b) hey can charge "waiting time" to my account. Doing it again on Friday when I go to Stroud Hospital.
Dunno. They just tell you the dots that you missed. They then send them to DVLA who decide if you passed or failed. I've given up caring. I'll send them to my sol and she can forward them on to an eye specialist. Nobody can fix this but I just want to get more compo out of it. Good thing was that the whole thing cost me nothing. I didn't have to pay Specsavers anything as the DVLA pay and didn't have to pay for the taxi as they are paid under the rehab code.
I'm slightly confused here @PerryL, do you want to fail your eye test or not ? Reason I'm asking is, I would have thought you might be better off (compensation wise) losing your licence. And if that is the case why fight to get it back before your claim is settled, or have I missed something.
My first instinct was to get he license back asap. Then I failed a test at my local optician and informed DVLA prior to doing their driver assessment. They sent me to Specsavers to do the DVLA test and I failed that by which time DVLA banned me anyway because I didn't take the driver assessment course quickly enough. Then I was sent to Dursley and then Cheltenham hospitals for eye checks and the last Opthamologist that I say said that she thought I could now pass the DVLA test. So I wrote to DVLA and asked to be sent to do the DVLA test at Specsavers again (this was after failing it months before). This was back in June. DVLA then started on this "who are you? - never heard of you" game and made me apply for a new driving license like I had never had one before. They rejected the first application because I didn't include a photograph because I knew damn well that they already had one - but they preferred to play the "who are you? Never heard of you" game. After all that, they would not give me a new license but suddenly remembered that I need to go to Specsavers! In the past few weeks, I have decided that I've had enough of all this fannying around and no longer care about the driving license. I did the test because it was booked in and if I fail then my solicitor can use that to meet a consultant (who can do feck all) but more importantly, use the DVLA failure and loss of license to increase my compensation. So, to sum up, I've lost interest in getting my license back and just want to up my compensation for losing my driving license.
Just emailed my solicitor and that got me thinking: 1) I have to do the fecking eye test, yet the driver who knocked me off because she didn't "see" me, doesn't. She doesn't see me wearing a white helmet and jacket that is reflective on a bike with the headlight on, nor hear a Monster with an Akrapovic exhaust YET, IT IS ME THAT HAS TO DO THE EYE TEST! She must of been on the fecking phone!!! 2) That eye test: I reckon 25-50% of all drivers would not pass it. It is not at all like reading a number plate at 25 metres (which I can easily do). I reckon that I've been done up like a kipper! The other driver will be getting her no-claims bonus back before I do, yet I did nothing wrong!
My hospital tour continues: I reckon I've done seven now. The circulation in my legs is not right and so the skin is not healing. Apparently this is due to blood getting to my legs OK but not finding its way back. This explains why the swelling hasn't gone down, as well. I am being referred on and this could yet another hospital. Crap thing is that I don't think I could get motorbike boots on and so doesn't really matter what the DVLA say. only thing is the DVLA could prevent me driving a car - although I am not even sure of getting one, anyway, as taxis and trains have suited me so far.
