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Try reading Diabetes UK finding on drivers and diabetes.
You can be a cocaine addict and drive a lorry, an alcoholic and so on.
Most diabetics can read there bodies exceedingly well (long term blood test can prove stability of the sufferer) if they CARE for their condition like I do and the majority of sufferers do so know when a problem is coming on if ever.
A law blanketly pinching diabetics licences just because they become insulin depended is unjust and not thought through IMHO.
Control of diabetes has come a ong way forward now shame about the law
Why are they more dangerous on the road than any other person??????
After all pedestrians and cyclists can and do cause many major accidents
Diabetes UK wins driving licence change for people with diabetes
05 April 2001
People with diabetes have won a significant victory today with new regulations coming into effect which will remove the blanket ban on insulin users driving vans and small lorries. The change, the result of strong campaigning by Diabetes UK, will see the introduction of individual medical assessment for C1 licences.
"This is an important victory in the fight to remove discrimination against people with diabetes on the roads,? said Paul Streets, Chief Executive of Diabetes UK. ?The parliamentary science and technology committee has condemned blanket bans on people with diabetes driving as ?illogical and inconsistent?. We hope that this new and fairer approach will now be applied to all classifications of licences and the government?s commitment to a research programme to look at this issue is welcomed."
Applicants for the C1 licence will now be assessed individually. A satisfactory annual check-up and evidence of good diabetic control will be the main qualifying conditions. The changes were agreed following a public consultation and apply to large vans and small lorries (category C1 vehicles) between 3.5 and 7.5 tonnes. The blanket ban on those treating their diabetes with insulin will still apply to LGVs, minibuses and buses.
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shame about the law 
For "Our Mavis."
