Thank you so much for your words of encouragement . I sent in a good supporting letter and will take a copy with me to court on Monday just in case the original is not in front of the magistrates . Unfortunately I have left it to late to engage a solicitor as it is this coming Monday but will ask if the duty solicitor would be good enough to help.
I have been a good boy since my disqualification and completed 300+ hrs extra at the charity shop I completed my community payback.
Completed several Open University courses until diagnosed with Cancer in December 2020 .My treatment is over but the recovery is going to be long and hard and I do not have my first scan until July so still do not know if treatment worked .
I am 60 now so not a tearaway and have not drank alcohol for nearly 2 years.
You will be absolutely fine, I've read and I'm sure the administration of this really priceless resource of not just being able to "get things from our chests, we naturally obsess and here is the only place I can read posts and reply only from past posts, I have read where people have been ready to talk to god, he answers and a license was issued yet he was doing a deal with the devil 1 week later, that meaning getting a second DUI and the whole process starts again. I've come on tonight to update that after 19 years I've finally through age given into saying after I was banned in 1999,( stupidly drinking at a conference in the day, and carrying on during the train journey back home with intentions of a cab from our train station and pick my then company car over night at Stafford and I was bitter cold, there were no cabs, and that "I'll be OK, take my time, I feel fine with the window wound down, I did 4 miles without killing some innocent motorist or pedestrian,, well thank god I Did not, but we don't realise when we have have had a way too much and very bright Blues N Twos are pulling you over and we answer to their *Have you been drinking * with "just the one",,, so my court and sentence was I'd blown 168, ( forgive me if it was 138, but it worked out at 3 and a half times over the legal limit, not sure if it changed after?) Luckily my solicitor said it was a good job I had a good PRE Sentance report, decent job, my son was 3 weeks from being born, so it was 60 hrs community service every Sunday, 30 month ban, I wasn't even offered the mop, couple of hundred costs and I felt like I'd lost my legs. Well I'd got used to walking after 30 months, but as HRO applications are sent out before bans were up I thought why not,,, now I read the other night in the group, a huge DVLA error happened around that time, it would have been aboyt March, 30 months from Sept 99 to March 2001, expecting a medical booking form well a Pink card fell out, they'd issued my license in error. I was 33 at the time so I was "Should I, or,,, then I came to my senses, I didn't ring my solicitor for advice, it was straight on the phone to DVLA, and they were very appreciative tbh, so that was as near to being what would have been void insurance and I most of all slept at night, so yesterday, 19 years on I sent an envelope that felt like a novel inside , so I'll add the date from Monday 17th May, and keep the forum up to date, hopefully medicals are being arranged, our applications opened a tad faster, but I, unlike many people who rely on transport have gone 19 years without, just worn away more shoe leather
so another 6 months
Thank you so much for your words of encouragement . I sent in a good supporting letter and will take a copy with me to court on Monday just in case the original is not in front of the magistrates . Unfortunately I have left it to late to engage a solicitor as it is this coming Monday but will ask if the duty solicitor would be good enough to help.
I have been a good boy since my disqualification and completed 300+ hrs extra at the charity shop I completed my community payback.
Completed several Open University courses until diagnosed with Cancer in December 2020 .My treatment is over but the recovery is going to be long and hard and I do not have my first scan until July so still do not know if treatment worked .
I am 60 now so not a tearaway and have not drank alcohol for nearly 2 years.