Ignorant of highway code and lights on bikes law

[Mugshot]

Anyway,back on track about this topic and in particular the roundabout where it happened. This isn't the first time i've been involved in an incident at this roundabout. About 3 years ago i was on my bike,just near this roundabout when i saw a two car collision on the roundabout. One car had pulled off the supermarket car park onto the roundabout when it was side impacted by someone coming from the same direction as him on a bike was on Friday night. Luckily no one was injured but seeing as i was a witness to the incident i was asked to give a statement by the driver who was side impacted,for his insurers. He didn't get back to me which i thought was a bit impolite as i'm sure that my letter to his insurers helped his case and therefore helped him get compensation for damages to his car.

As had been pointed out your current claim of perfect vision is totally at odds with what you have claimed previously. Your protestations that this thread is not about your eyesight is bunkum, this thread is directly related to your reaction to "seeing" a cyclist, how's your depth perception for starters?
Your post above smacks rather of someone desperately trying to divert attention away from the real issue here, your eyesight or lack of it.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

[QUOTE 5266714, member: 45"]By not informing the DVLA that you're blind in one eye, you're committing a criminal offence. And you're driving without insurance.

https://help.rnib.org.uk/help/daily-living/transport-travel/monocular-drive[/QUOTE]

I could be wrong and I haven't read older threads where Accy may have divulged his monocularity (is that a word?) in more detail but my understanding from this statement :

my eyesight is no different to how it's been for the last 38 years of me having a license,

... is that he has always driven with one eye since he passed his test, so nothing has changed.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I could be wrong and I haven't read older threads where Accy may have divulged his monocularity (is that a word?) in more detail but my understanding from this statement :



... is that he has always driven with one eye since he passed his test, so nothing has changed.

Scratch that @User , I've just seen your post #113.

 

[User10119]

I could be wrong and I haven't read older threads where Accy may have divulged his monocularity (is that a word?) in more detail but my understanding from this statement :



... is that he has always driven with one eye since he passed his test, so nothing has changed.

I went to look, because I didn't get an answer when I asked, and apparently not. Torn retina in, I think, 2012 and a couple of retinal ops since. So 32(ish) years of driving with two functioning eyes followed by 6(ish) of monocular vision.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Ok,just one more comment about my eyes. It's all well you lot getting het up about my eyesight but think how i feel! I think that i've been seriously messed about by the eye departments at the two local hospitals i've attended. I have tried to convince them that having one working eye just isn't as good as having two,but they just won't accept it! It's all very well this opthamologist saying that i have 100% vision but as i said in post number 110,it doesn't quite work like that. You only have a short time with your appointment and in that time they do the same old depth perception and peripheral vision tests. It's as if they're going round the houses again and again. I was supposed to go for another appointment last Wednesday,but i cancelled it. Why do i need more tests if my eyesight is 100% i ask? They tell us that the NHS is down on its knees and people are having unnecessary appointments for trivial things,well tell that to the eye departments at the Blackburn and Accrington hospitals!

 

[Accy cyclist]

[QUOTE 5266806, member: 10119"]I went to look, because I didn't get an answer when I asked, and apparently not. Torn retina in, I think, 2012 and a couple of retinal ops since. So 32(ish) years of driving with two functioning eyes followed by 6(ish) of monocular vision.[/QUOTE]
Yes,that is correct.

 

[Accy cyclist]

[QUOTE 5266848, member: 45"]I sympathise. I can't imagine losing that much of one sense. But, you've still got an obligation to follow the law and make sure you're legal and safe on the road. For your sake and everyone else's. As I've said, the DVLA may say (after getting the information they need or sending you for an eye test like they did with me) that you're OK to drive. You have to be aware though that they might stop you.[/QUOTE]
Ok,i'm going to contact them this week and see what they say.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Do any of you have their e-mail address or phone number by any chance?

 

[theclaud]

Do any of you have their e-mail address or phone number by any chance?

 

[theclaud]

Here you go.

https://www.gov.uk/contact-the-dvla/y/driving-and-medical-issues

 

[Smokin Joe]

Accy - Supertroll.

 

[potsy]

Do any of you have their e-mail address or phone number by any chance?

http://www.letmegooglethat.com/?q=dvla+phone+number

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Give it a rest! This thread is about what i've described in my opening post. It's not about my eyesight etc. I'm perfectly entitled to drive,the opthamologist said so the last time i had an appointment with him. Anyway,as i said,this thread is not about my eyesight,so let's keep it that way please.

I'm sorry it was a genuine question, I don't often drop in on your diatribes as I know they will just be you ranting against an unfair society or rather an unfair society to you in your view. I'll not ask again don't worry

 

[Accy cyclist]

Right,i've sent them an e-mail with my name and D.O.B etc. It says they'll get back to me within 6 weeks. They don't ask what the medical condition is,so i'm assuming they'll ask that when they contact me. Maybe they will send me for a medical or write to the opthamologist who examined me for his findings. One way or another this will be resolved hopefully soon, then i can either carry on driving or surrender my license. I think they'll take the word of the opthamologist and just have it on record that i'm blind in my right eye. I think they'll let me keep my license when they look at my driving history and see that i've only had 3 points on my license in 38 years and that was for a triviality. They'll see that since losing my right eyesight nearly 6 years ago i haven't had an accident or been given points,so this should satisfy them that i'm a competent driver,even if i only have one functioning eye.

 

[Tim Hall]

Right,i've sent them an e-mail with my name and D.O.B etc. It says they'll get back to me within 6 weeks. They don't ask what the medical condition is,so i'm assuming they'll ask that when they contact me. Maybe they will send me for a medical or write to the opthamologist who examined me for his findings. One way or another this will be resolved hopefully soon, then i can either carry on driving or surrender my license. I think they'll take the word of the opthamologist and just have it on record that i'm blind in my right eye. I think they'll let me keep my license when they look at my driving history and see that i've only had 3 points on my license in 38 years and that was for a triviality. They'll see that since losing my right eyesight nearly 6 years ago i haven't had an accident or been given points,so this should satisfy them that i'm a competent driver,even if i only have one functioning eye.

Well done for contacting them.