Caveat.

It was unfortunate that my GP recommended a driving test when he must have known that I had suffered no brain damage from my terrible medical experience.

Most people who have never had a driving lesson but have driven for fifty years would fail a driving test, as any driving instructor will tell you. I was not allowed instruction or practise for years by Dr. JJG Hanley of the DVLA. However, when my legal action against the DVLA loomed, the DVLA allowed me to have driving instruction. However, Hanley should know that I would then be instructed in how to pass a test, not in how to drive safely.

Having never had a crash in fifty years, including driving safely at home and abroad for a year after hospitalisation, my driving should never have been in doubt. As to my being able to pass a test, that is another matter. The fact remains that the last time I passed a driving test in the UK or the USA was 1964. I now have my driving licence back.

Ivor Catt 12 December 2011